Word: kukdong
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Anti-sweatshop activitsts applauded a rare victory in union-organizing when factory workers and representatives of the Workers Rights Consortium (WRC), a non-profit sweatshop watchdog group, testified to the “unprecendented” success of recent efforts to create an independent, democratic union in the Kukdong apparel plant in Mexico last Thursday...
Workers in Kukdong, a factory that manufactures university logo apparel for Nike, have complained of abusive working conditions and overbearing management but managed to organize, aided by an intense effort on the part of the WRC, founded two years ago by a consortium of non-profits, universities and non-governmental organizations...
Panelists said they hoped to illuminate the key ingredients that led to the success of the Kukdong movement, in the hope that the same mix will be achieved in future cases of workers’ rights violations...
...addition to Nova and Nunez, presenters included Nunez’s research assistant, Catalina Guzman Albaful, and Kukdong union organizer Marcela Munoz Tepepa...