{"id":24178,"date":"2020-10-26T16:15:16","date_gmt":"2020-10-26T07:15:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2020\/oct\/26\/thrown-to-the-wolves-how-covid-19-laws-are-being-used-to-silence-garment-workers"},"modified":"2020-10-26T16:15:16","modified_gmt":"2020-10-26T07:15:16","slug":"thrown-to-the-wolves-how-covid-19-laws-are-being-used-to-silence-garment-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=24178","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Thrown to the wolves&#8217;: how Covid-19 laws are being used to silence garment workers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Campaigners report job losses and jailing of those airing grievances \u2013 and urge global fashion brands to stand up for workers\u2019 rights<\/p>\n<p>On the morning<strong> <\/strong>of 4 May, Zar Zar Tun, a Burmese garment worker, led a strike at a factory in the city of Yangon. Within 24 hours she was an inmate at Myanmar\u2019s notorious Insein prison.<\/p>\n<p>Zar Zar Tun, 31, was arrested outside the Blue Diamond bag factory in Dagon Seikkan, an industrial district of Yangon, where she and more than 100<strong> <\/strong>other garment workers had been protesting over pay, working conditions and the right to strike.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2020\/oct\/26\/thrown-to-the-wolves-how-covid-19-laws-are-being-used-to-silence-garment-workers\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Campaigners report job losses and jailing of those airing grievances \u2013 and urge global fashion brands to stand up for workers\u2019 rightsOn the morning of 4 May, Zar Zar Tun, a Burmese garment worker, led a strike at a factory in the city of Yangon. Within&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1651,"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":[1066,1453,59,82,61,1478,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coronavirus","category-garment-workers","category-global-development","category-myanmar","category-south-and-central-asia","category-unions","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24178","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\/1651"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24178"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24179,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24178\/revisions\/24179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}