Inditex: Vietnam textile unions build Inditex network

IndustriALL global Union representatives together with the Vietnamese CGTV union have combined forces to build a union network aimed at defending workers across 42 factories in northern Vietnam that produces garments for Spanish owner Zara.
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During 08 and 11 October at a meeting held in Do Son in northern Vietnam, representatives of IndustriALL, the Friedrick Ebert foundation, and the Vietnam’s General Workers Confederation came together to set up a union network, the goal being to combine forces and strengthen workers’ representatives’ ability to intervene in all the country’s places of work that produce for Inditex (garments and leather goods). Representatives of 25 out of 42 factories working for the Spanish group were present.

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