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Sunday, April 6, 2014

Labor Activists Call Out Nike, Adidas, Puma Over Faintings

Labor Activists Call Out Nike, Adidas, Puma Over Faintings
 
The Cambodia Daily | April 5, 2014

A local human rights group with strong international ties called Friday on Adidas, Nike and Puma to take accountability for recent mass faintings in Phnom Penh factories that produce their sportswear.

“We call on international brands such as Adidas, Puma and Nike to take concrete measures to address wages that currently do not satisfy basic needs nor provide for a life with human dignity,” the Cambodian Legal Education Center (CLEC) said in a statement. 

On Friday, 128 garment workers reportedly fainted in two separate factories. This brought to 337 the total cases reported for the week.

The faintings occurred at the Shenzhou, Daqian Textile and New Wide factories in Phnom Penh’s industrial Pur Senchey district. CLEC said that staff at these three factories sew garments for one or all of the foreign sportswear companies.




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