{"id":21461,"date":"2020-08-07T15:15:29","date_gmt":"2020-08-07T06:15:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2020\/aug\/07\/covid-led-to-brutal-crackdown-on-garment-workers-rights-says-report"},"modified":"2020-08-07T15:15:29","modified_gmt":"2020-08-07T06:15:29","slug":"covid-led-to-brutal-crackdown-on-garment-workers-rights-says-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=21461","title":{"rendered":"Covid led to ‘brutal crackdown’ on garment workers’ rights, says report"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brands including Primark, Zara and H&M accused of failing to protect workers at factories in Asia from \u2018union busting\u2019<\/p>\n

Some of Europe\u2019s biggest retailers, including Primark, Zara and H&M, are failing to stop Covid-19 being used as a pretext for union busting, human rights activists are warning.<\/p>\n

Millions of garment workers<\/a> in some of the poorest parts of Asia have lost their jobs since coronavirus shutdowns hit the retail industry worldwide.<\/p>\n

Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Brands including Primark, Zara and H&M accused of failing to protect workers at factories in Asia from \u2018union busting\u2019Some of Europe\u2019s biggest retailers, including Primark, Zara and H&M, are failing to stop Covid-19 being used as a pretext for …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1496,"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":[41,6,361,1069,576,1453,1617,82,651,335,61,52,1478,42,1477],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-business","category-cambodia","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-fashion","category-garment-workers","category-hm","category-myanmar","category-primark","category-retail-industry","category-south-and-central-asia","category-uk-news","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\/21461","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\/1496"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21461"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21461\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21463,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21461\/revisions\/21463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}