How Women Garment Workers Took On A Global Clothing Giant And Won Their Rights
On 24 October, 2020, 1300 women garment workers of Euro Clothing Company– 2 (ECC-2) of a unit of Gokaldas Exports in Srirangapatna, in Mandya district of Karnataka won a major victory for women’s labour rights. The women workers of the factory who had been laid off in the middle of the pandemic in June last year, were finally paid their dues of nearly 45 lakh rupees by the company. The factory which supplies nearly 60% of cotton clothing to 25 billion dollar global apparel giant H&M, violated the Industrial Disputes Act 1947, Gratituary Bonus Act as well as the Ministry of