Public Meeting: Recession Ethics - How will the current economic crisis effect garment workers in the global south and retail workers here?

At 7 p.m. on the 7th of October in The Teachers Club Parnell Square 36 Dublin 1

Speakers;

Silvana Cappuccio; “The extreme exploitation of garment workers in the global south” Silvana of the International Textile Garment and Leather Workers Federation (ITGLWF), has traveled to 60 countries in the global south on behalf of ITGLWF and met thousands of garment workers and their unions

Tara Scott and Stacey Doley “Our experiences as sweatshop workers” Tara and Stacey are known from the BBC programme “Blood, Sweat and T-shirts” where they experienced a “short time” as workers in the Indian sweat shops.

John Douglas “International trade union solidarity in times of recession.” John is the General Secretary of MANDATE, the third largest union in the Republic of Ireland with a growing and increasingly active membership base across the Irish retail and bar trade

Chairperson; Sally Anne Kinahan, Assistant General Secretary ICTU