SOLIDARITY WITH BANGLADESHI TEXTILE WORKERS!

Picket Tesco!

Meet outside Tesco, Bethnal Green Road at 11am on Saturday 26th April

BANGALORE MAHANAGARA PALLIKE GUTTIGE POWRAKARMIKARA SANGHA
(Union of Bangalore City Corporation Contract Streetsweepers)

An appeal for support

Friends,
There are more than ten thousand contract powrakarmikas (municipal workers) in Bangalore, employed to keep the city clean. Over 80 percent of them are dalit and women. They labour under inhuman work conditions. They work six days a week, through sun and rain, cleaning the garbage with their bare hands.

meet at Tesco, Bethnal Green (opposite Derbyshire Road), London.

MONDAY 31st MARCH 7:30pm Oxford House, Derbyshire Road, Bethnal Green

LONDON NO SWEAT FORUM

Tesco has said it will investigate the circumstances of a series of violent demonstrations at factories in Bangladesh where workers have been protesting for higher wages and better working conditions.

Over 1000 workers producing clothes for Tesco H&M and Primark riot against beatings and poverty pay...

Workers endure up to 84-hour weeks to survive

Long hours and low pay breach industry codes, say workers

"Of 42.39 million Bangladeshi children aged 5-17 years 7.42 million were economically active, of which 3.18 million were considered child labourers."

http://www.waronwant.org/?lid=13901

Firm’s thugs attack clothes workers

A garment workers’ leader in Bangladesh disappeared after protesting at a colleague’s dismissal.

Workers went on strike over his disappearance in Tejgaon, believing he had been killed and his body hidden in the factory. The company’s bosses unleashed further violence, hiring thugs to beat up employees. Five workers were found hours later unconscious in a locked office.

War on Want Chief Executive Louise Richards met the Bangladeshi High Commissioner in London. She asked him to investigate the case, locate the whereabouts of the missing workers’ leader, establish the background of events and bring the attackers to justice.