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

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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

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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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