Help Cambodia’s garment workers, unions urge Business Secretary
The Business Secretary, Vince Cable, must force British clothing companies to investigate whether garments sourced from Cambodia are made at factories with fair labour practices, the unions have warned. … Frances O’Grady, general secretary of the Trade Union Congress, has written to Mr Cable warning that “repression against workers taking strike action” is growing in Cambodian factories which are increasingly supplying the UK and Europe’s demand for cheap clothing and footwear. The country’s exports to the EU were worth nearly £1.1bn in the first 11 months of last year, up 31 per cent on the same period in 2012. …
