BANGKOK - Production lines in some Yangon garment factories are buzzing despite the political turmoil that has presented global fashion brands with a conundrum - stay in Myanmar or leave the country? Read more at straitstimes.com.
Since the Feb 2021 coup, major brands like Marks & Spencer, Fast Retailing , and Ryohin Keikaku have either stopped sourcing from Myanmar or announced that they will stop sourcing from it.Paradoxically, the devaluation of the kyat has made the country financially attractive as a place to manufacture garments.
Local workers interviewed by ST said they felt the pressure to tamper their requests for fairer wages. Mr Jacob Andrew Clere, team leader of the European Union-funded SMART Factories Programme to improve labour and environmental standards, said: “It’s hard to see how exiting can be considered responsible, and it will rarely result in the problems that brands are bound to encounter being effectively remediated.
But Ms Khaing Zar Aung, exiled president of the Industrial Workers Federation of Myanmar, argued that this was simply not possible under current circumstances because trade unionists were under constant threat of harassment or persecution by the junta.
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