{"id":19658,"date":"2020-06-24T15:00:09","date_gmt":"2020-06-24T06:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/fashion\/2020\/jun\/24\/zara-primark-factory-workers-myanmar-fired-union"},"modified":"2020-06-24T15:00:09","modified_gmt":"2020-06-24T06:00:09","slug":"zara-and-primark-factory-workers-say-they-were-fired-after-forming-union","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=19658","title":{"rendered":"Zara and Primark factory workers say they were fired after forming union"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Workers in Myanmar say management targeted union supporters under pretense layoffs were related to coronavirus <\/p>\n<p>Hundreds of workers at two factories in Myanmar that produce clothing for Zara and Primark were fired days after forming a union in a move workers say targeted union supporters under the pretense that layoffs were related to the coronavirus. Zara is the main brand of Inditex, the <a href=\"https:\/\/hypebeast.com\/2017\/3\/zara-world-largest-clothing-retailer#:~:text=Zara%20was%20founded%20in%201975,wealthiest%20man%20in%20the%20world.\">largest clothing retailer<\/a> in the world.<\/p>\n<p> <span>Related: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2020\/jun\/10\/zara-owner-to-close-up-to-1200-fashion-stores-around-the-world\">Zara owner to close up to 1,200 fashion stores around the world<\/a> <\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/fashion\/2020\/jun\/24\/zara-primark-factory-workers-myanmar-fired-union\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Workers in Myanmar say management targeted union supporters under pretense layoffs were related to coronavirus Hundreds of workers at two factories in Myanmar that produce clothing for Zara and Primark were fired days after forming a union in a move wo&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1069,576,82,651,335,61,1478,42,1477],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-fashion","category-myanmar","category-primark","category-retail-industry","category-south-and-central-asia","category-unions","category-world-news","category-zara"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19658"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19658\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19659,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19658\/revisions\/19659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}