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SUMMARY:Thai El Monte Garment Workers: The Return of Slavery and Trafficking in The Modern Era
DESCRIPTION:At 4 am on August 2\, 1995\, Chanchanit Martorell\, Executive Director of the Thai Community Development Center\, met with government authorities and law enforcement at a doughnut shop in El Monte\, California\, blocks from the slavery compound that they would raid\, a row of apartment duplexes on a residential street\, eerily surrounded by barbed wire. The US Department of Labor\, California Labor Commission\, California Employment Development Department\, Cal-OSHA\, federal marshals\, and the El Monte police participated in the raid.  \nThai CDC mobilized a coalition of nonprofit organizations\, attorneys\, and community members to offer shelter\, food and clothing\, medical care\, jobs\, and legal services to the workers following their liberation.\n​\nThe Thai workers had labored for 18 or more hours every day inside rat-infested buildings where they lived crammed into bedrooms with ten of their fellow slaves. Their captors controlled them by confiscating passports\, hiring armed guards\, and physically threatening them and their families back home.  \nThey made clothes for brand-name manufacturers and nationwide retailers. Garments bore the labels Anchor Blue\, Tomato\, Clio\, B.U.M.\, High Sierra\, Axle\, and others—labels owned by well-known retailers\, such as Miller’s Outpost and Montgomery Ward\, or sold on the racks of Nordstrom\, Sears\, and Target. \nEl Monte was the first recognized case of modern-day slavery in the United States\, leading to the passage of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act in the year 2000. This exhibition tells the story of the case from the perspective of the survivors\, featuring their testimonies\, images and maps of the compound\, and other artifacts.​ \n(June 10- September 5 2021)
URL:https://www.freedomunited.org/event/thai-el-monte-garment-workers/
LOCATION:Los Angeles United Methodist Museum of Social Justice\, 115 Paseo de La Plaza\, LA\, CA 90012\, United States
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SUMMARY:10 Years and Still Waiting: Time to Ratify the ILO C189 on Domestic Workers
DESCRIPTION:Domestic Workers set history when International Labour Standard ILO C189 was adopted on 16th of June 2011 and was enforced on 5th of September 2013 aimed to protect over 53 million domestic workers worldwide. However for UK Domestic Workers\, it was a betrayal when UK abstained to vote for the convention and was the only member country of the ILO that didn’t vote. The UK claimed that ” The UK already provides comprehensive employment and social protection to domestic workers and we do not consider it appropriate or practical to extend criminal health and safety law\, including inspections\, to private households employing domestic workers”. On 2012 these labour rights and protection were scrapped. \nIn this panel discussion\, we bring together global updates on the ratification of ILO C189 and the impact on the national law of countries that have already ratified\, implemented and enforced the ILO C189 decent work for domestic workers and learn the ways we could all do to push for UK government to ratify this convention. \n10 Years and still Waiting: Time to Ratify the ILO C189\, Decent Work for Domestic Workers is a webinar event organised by The Voice of Domestic Workers\, Kalayaan and Freedom United. This event is supported by Unite the Union\, Trades Union Congress (TUC)\, Anti-slavery International and Stop the Traffik. \nThis panel event is also to commemorate the 10 Years anniversary of ILO C189 and to celebrate the International Domestic Workers Day. \nChair : Miriam Karmali\, Advocacy\, Freedom United \nKarin Pape\, WIEGO (Women in informal Employment Globalising and Organising). \nMarissa Begonia\, Director of The Voice of Domestic Workers. \nRuth Olate\, ex-president of SINTRACAP\, the Domestic Workers Union in Chile. Ruth now works for CONLACTRAHO\, the Latin American Federation of Domestic Workers. \nDiana Holland\, Assistant General Secretary of Unite the Union \nwith translation volunteer Ms Judit Montenegro\, journalist\, researcher and volunteer at VODW.
URL:https://www.freedomunited.org/event/10-years-and-still-waiting/
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