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Factory workers return to work amid dismissal threats
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Factories strike halts production - Lesotho Times
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Fresh factory strike looms
MASERU – SIX trade unions say they will down tools next Friday to press Labour Minister Moshe Leoma to gazette a new minimum wage for factory workers.
The strike will be a follow-up to one they held two weeks ago in the Thetsane Industrial Area where three workers were shot and injured by the riot police.
The unions say they will petition Prime Minister Moeketsi Majoro and Leoma to address their grievances.
Speaking at a press conference in Maseru on Tuesday, , who is the Secretary General of the National Clothing Textile and Allied Workers Union (NACTWU), said they will not back off until their grievances are addressed.
Exclusive: Workers in Factory That Makes Kate Hudson s Fabletics Activewear Allege Rampant Sexual and Physical Abuse Time 5/5/2021 Louise Donovan © Lindokuhle Sobekwa Magnum Photos for TIME Factory workers head home at the end of the day in Maseru, Lesotho. Many travel by foot and live in nearby villages or surrounding areas as far as seven miles away.
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mployees at a garment factory in Lesotho, a tiny country in southern Africa, say they have lived in constant fear for years. Each day at 7 a.m., as their sewing machines whirred, a familiar panic rose in many of them: