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Vietnam’s VGCL is even worse than China’s ACFTU: ILO official in FT interview
China’s Communist Party now thinks its ACFTU needs to significantly improve its image. The question is, how long will it take for this thinking to permeate down to Vietnam’s one-party rulers.
Forced-labor “Drug rehab” camps: US Congressmen raise concerns
Six US Congressmen last week wrote to US Secretary of State Clinton to, among other things, raise their concerns about Vietnam’s use of drug-rehab camps as forced labor camps.
UN Special Rapporteur: Close Vietnam’s “drug-rehab” camps
CPVW welcomes the UN Special Rapporteur’s statement “I wholeheartedly support the closure of the rehabilitation centres” at his press briefing in Hanoi on 05th December. Mr. Anand Grover’s call adds to CPVW’s call to close the so-called drug-rehab camps because they are “ineffective and counterproductive”, “violate [detainees’] right to health”, and are forced-labor factories..
Australia urged to investigate Vietnam’s forced-labor camps
Australia wants Vietnam to close forced-labor camps disguised as drug rehab camps, which a HRW report recently brought to light. And a government MP wrote to Australian Foreign Minister urging an investigation of the camps, which receive Australian foreign aid.
2 identified among sacked Pou Yuen strikers, CPVW tells Adidas, Nike, Puma, New Balance
To: William AndersonHead of Social & Environmental Affairs – Asia Pacific Adidas william.anderson@adidas-group.com Duncan ScottVP External Products New Balance Duncan.Scott@newbalance.com Glenna GirtleNorth Asia Director of Sustainable Manufacturing Performance Nike Head of Better Work Asia Buyers’ Forum Sub-group Glenna.Girtle@nike.com Dr. Reiner Hengstmann Global Director of SAFE Supply ChainPuma Reiner.Hengstmann@puma.com CC: Scott NovaExecutive Director Workers Rights Consortium … Read more
Rescue 40,000 forced laborers including kids
At least hundreds of kids and 40,000 people are forced laborers in the Vietnamese authorities’ “drug rehab” centres, beaten with electrical batons if they refuse to work. Please help rescue them
Vietnamese authorities’ “Drug-rehab” shops are forced-labor sweatshops: CPVW asks union leaders to take action
Today we release our 4-page summary document, quoting some key findings and recommendations from Human Rights Watch’s 127-page report released 2 days ago, detailing evidence that the Vietnamese authorities’ drug rehabilitation centres are in fact forced-labor sweatshops. Some 40 thousand drug users are forcibly detained and beaten into working by the authorities. Wages, if any, are … Read more
TWU delegates:- “We didn’t know it’s so bad in Vietnam!”
Many transport workers union delegates told me after my talk at the TWU NSW conference that they were astounded. Vietnam’s state-run union VGCL is actually an anti-union, a setup to prevent workers organising. For TWU unionists, life is a struggle. For Vietnamese ones, it’s worse.
Harvard International Review article cites CPVW’s anti-sweatshop work
In the Harvard International Review journal’s just-published Summer edition, researcher Jeff Ballinger’s article “How Civil Society Can Help [Sweatshop Workers]” highlighted CPVW’s work, forcing Nike to stop using CSR as a mask hiding horrendous working conditions for thousands of its contract migrant workers
Japanese metalworkers union meets families of jailed Viet unionists
On 4th August in Saigon, Mr. Shinya Iwai, International Affairs Bureau Chief Assistant Director from IMF-JC, Japan’s Council of Metalworkers Unions, met the families of Chuong-Hung-Hanh, sentenced last year to up to 9 years imprisonment for leading a strike..
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