Sweden's H&M signs pledge for textile workers
Swedish retail giant H&M on Tuesday signed an agreement promising better labour rights for 1.6 million workers at its suppliers' factories.
Egytex News Desk
Source: The Local.se
The deal, reached with international union IndustriALL Global Union and Sweden's IF Metall union, covers workers employed in 1,900 factories in "countries such as Cambodia, Bangladesh, Myanmar and Turkey", the three organizations said in a statement.
It includes the right to unionize, refuse to work in dangerous conditions and bargain collectively for better salaries.
Rights groups regularly denounce the global textile industry for poor protection of its workers, nearly two thirds of whom are women.
Source: The Local.se
From the Egytex news archive, first published on 3 November 2015. Figures and names are as reported at the time.
