{"id":51381,"date":"2022-12-24T00:54:29","date_gmt":"2022-12-23T15:54:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2022\/dec\/23\/thai-police-raid-former-tesco-clothing-supplier-centre-sweatshop-claims"},"modified":"2022-12-24T00:54:29","modified_gmt":"2022-12-23T15:54:29","slug":"thai-police-raid-former-tesco-clothing-supplier-at-centre-of-sweatshop-claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=51381","title":{"rendered":"Thai police raid former Tesco clothing supplier at centre of sweatshop claims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>VK Garment factory in Mae Sot is subject of a UK lawsuit against the supermarket from 130 ex-workers<\/p>\n<p>Thai police have raided a clothing factory previously used by Tesco that is the subject of a UK lawsuit over alleged sweatshop conditions.<\/p>\n<p>The Guardian revealed earlier this week that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2022\/dec\/18\/workers-in-thailand-who-made-ff-jeans-for-tesco-trapped-in-effective-forced-labour\">Burmese workers who produced F&amp;F jeans for Tesco<\/a> in Thailand reported being trapped in, in effect, forced labour, working 99-hour weeks for illegally low pay in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/dec\/18\/workers-tell-of-sweatshop-conditions-at-thai-factory-used-by-tesco\">appalling conditions<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2022\/dec\/23\/thai-police-raid-former-tesco-clothing-supplier-centre-sweatshop-claims\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VK Garment factory in Mae Sot is subject of a UK lawsuit against the supermarket from 130 ex-workersThai police have raided a clothing factory previously used by Tesco that is the subject of a UK lawsuit over alleged sweatshop conditions.The Guardian r&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3490,"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":[41,6,847,82,335,2820,61,2509,1010,93,52,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-business","category-employment","category-myanmar","category-retail-industry","category-rights-issues","category-south-and-central-asia","category-supermarkets","category-tesco","category-thailand","category-uk-news","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51381","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\/3490"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51381"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51382,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51381\/revisions\/51382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}