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'Profits Over People': Virus Overruns Malaysian Glove Factories


By Sam Reeves, with Sam Jahan in Dhaka
December 12, 2020
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A large coronavirus outbreak at factories run by Top Glove, the world s largest rubber glove manufacturer, has brought workers living conditions under scrutiny
Mohd RASFAN
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Bangladeshi migrant worker Sheikh Kibria recalls with horror the filthy, overcrowded dormitory where he was housed by the world s biggest rubber glove manufacturer when a coronavirus outbreak erupted and infected thousands.
Malaysia s Top Glove saw profits soar, and its stock price jump as much as 400 percent this year as countries worldwide rushed to buy protective gear as the pandemic intensified.
But in interviews with AFP, the South Asian migrants working flat out to make the gloves who typically earn around $300 a month described appalling living conditions, in cramped dormitories where up to 25 people sleep in bunk beds in a single room. ....

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