Forwarded message: Date: Tue, 26 Mar 1996 21:02:42 -0500 From: Sam Lanfranco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Sri Lanka Garmet Workers: Bleak Update Sender: Forum on Labor in the Global Economy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-to: Forum on Labor in the Global Economy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tue, 26 Mar 1996 23:25:20 +0800 (HKT) From: AMRC <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Sri Lanka Garment Workers Struggle (fwd) PLEASE CIRCULATE Today the factories were temporarily closed and 5400 workers were sent home without their overdue wages or bonuses. We are still campaigning in Hong Kong to demand that the workers be paid and that their future be made clear by the management. One of the workers was brought to Hong Kong from Sri Lanka by the Hong Kong Clothing Industry Employees General Union. She will lead a demonstration at the head office of Bonaventure Textiles. If the workers demands are not met she and supporters from Hong Kong will begin a hunger strike. We have also heard that the workers at the company's New York office have been laid off. In solidarity AMRC
