SL Garment Strike Is About Fashion…
The strike by the workers from the SL Garment factory is in its 4th month. They walked the streets several times, they are without income, they sit for hours at the gates of their factory, they put up a blockade on the road, they were dispersed by the riot police, they were shot at with slingshots and with live ammunition, but they still stand. Even the mediation by the Prime Minister’s cabinet has not succeeded in totally ironing out the differences between the workers and their direction.
It is all about obtaining a fair pay for making what you pay for, for the fashionable stuff you in the West are wearing…
More on the SL Garment factory strike HERE, HERE, HERE and HERE.
All photographs taken with the Sony RX1…