September 21, 2020 2:39PM ET

Central American Garment Workers Seek $20 Million ‘Shared Responsibility’ Fund

Unions representing Central American garment workers are calling on apparel brands to donate part of their profits to aid those out of work. — Brands and manufacturers such as Gildan, Tegra, Fruit of the Loom, Nike and Adidas have a “shared responsibility” with the roughly 200,000 Central American workers who lost their jobs, most of whom have not yet been properly compensated, Ruiz insisted.

CREDIT: Gildan

MEXICO CITY – Central America’s apparel workers are looking to establish a roughly $20 million fund to help compensate factory operators who lost their jobs during Covid-19, local union sources have revealed. “We are initiating a regional campaign to establish a dialogue mechanism with the brands that produce in Central America to assume their social…

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