Thread by @cleanclothes

On today's #COVID19 live-blog:
1. Tens of millions of migrant workers who have lost their jobs as a result of the pandemic crisis now face unemployment and poverty in their home countries.
Read more: cleanclothes.org/covid19 1/

2. Some factory owners in #Bangladesh report receiving new orders, although much less than usual.
3. In response to the #Cambodia employer association's call to delay annual wage negotiations, unions & workers urged to negotiate a minimum wage increase this year as planned. 2/

4. Union leaders in #Cambodia pointed out that the distribution of the government's relief efforts has been too slow and the application process is too complicated. According to the Ministry of Labour, so far $3.9 million have been distributed, benefitting 169,161 workers. 3/

5. More than 600 workers of HANA garment factory in Phnom Penh, #Cambodia, staged a protest on Tuesday demanding their wages after the company suspended operations due to a lack of orders. 4/

6. Due to order cancellations, production in #Morocco’s garment industry came to a halt by 20 March and factory owners did not have sufficient funds to cover worker’s salaries. Now, some factories have reopened and are making PPE. 5/

7. #Myanmar’s small and medium-sized enterprises have been harshly affected by the crisis and are urging the government to relax the #COVID19 loan policies which requires to repay loans in one year.
8.#Nepal is starting to bring migrant workers back home. 6/

9. Industrial Workers of the World Bristol will be holding pickets in solidarity with Dragon Sweaters factory workers in #Bangladesh, producing for @Gap, @Zara, @Primark, @HM, @Nextofficial, @LidlGB, @NewYorkeronline, where 6000 workers are threatened to be fired. 7/