US soccer player Megan Rapinoe is being urged by Labour Behind the Label, a UK organisation dedicated to labour rights in the global textile sector, to put pressure on her sponsor, Nike, to compensate garment workers in Cambodia and Thailand. The workers, according to the campaigners, were ‘robbed of legally-owed compensation’ totaling US $ 1.4 million, and many are ‘still struggling with debts’ from that period. More than 3,000 employees at Nike supplier Hong Seng Knitting in Thailand, according to Labour Behind the Label, were allegedly denied ‘legally owed’ vacation money during the pandemic. The campaign group claims the manufacturer threatened the workers who are owed US $ 800,000 and refused to pay them. The campaign makes reference to Rapinoe and her colleagues’ fight for the U.S. Women’s National Team to get equal pay.

Source: Economic Times July 24, 2023 11:14 UTC