{"id":41522,"date":"2022-02-09T16:01:01","date_gmt":"2022-02-09T07:01:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2022\/feb\/09\/a-bad-dream-nepalis-who-made-uk-ppe-speak-out-on-claims-of-abusive-working-conditions-supermax"},"modified":"2022-02-09T16:01:01","modified_gmt":"2022-02-09T07:01:01","slug":"a-bad-dream-nepalis-who-made-uks-ppe-speak-out-on-claims-of-abusive-working-conditions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=41522","title":{"rendered":"\u2018A bad dream\u2019: Nepalis who made UK\u2019s PPE speak out on claims of abusive working conditions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Glove manufacturer Supermax has repeatedly won NHS contracts during the pandemic, despite claims of forced labour. Now, a group of former workers are seeking justice<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t have any dreams for the future because every dream depends on money,\u201d says Resham, a 45-year-old from Banke, a district in Nepal bordering the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. \u201cTime is passing and I\u2019m getting older. Whatever comes my way, I will face it and go ahead with life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Last year, Resham returned to Nepal after spending 10 years working at Supermax, a company producing medical gloves in Malaysia. In October, the US <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/us-bars-malaysian-glove-maker-supermax-over-alleged-labour-abuses-2021-10-21\/\">banned imports<\/a> from Supermax based on evidence \u201cthat indicates the use of forced labour\u201d, and the month after, Canada <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tpsgc-pwgsc.gc.ca\/medias-media\/actualites-news\/supermax-update-eng.html\">terminated<\/a> its contracts. The UK, meanwhile, has named the British subsidiary of Supermax as an approved supplier in a new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2022\/jan\/06\/uk-faces-legal-action-for-approving-firm-accused-of-using-forced-labour-as-ppe-supplier\">\u00a36bn contract for gloves for NHS workers<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2022\/feb\/09\/a-bad-dream-nepalis-who-made-uk-ppe-speak-out-on-claims-of-abusive-working-conditions-supermax\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Glove manufacturer Supermax has repeatedly won NHS contracts during the pandemic, despite claims of forced labour. Now, a group of former workers are seeking justice\u201cI don\u2019t have any dreams for the future because every dream depends on money,\u201d says Res&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2894,"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":[41,1066,59,346,53,86,70,491,640,241,1075,713,61,2428,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-coronavirus","category-global-development","category-health","category-human-rights","category-law","category-malaysia","category-migration","category-migration-and-development","category-nepal","category-nhs","category-slavery","category-south-and-central-asia","category-workers-rights","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\/41522","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\/2894"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41522"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41522\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41523,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41522\/revisions\/41523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}