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----- Original Message -----
From: "Mitayo Potosi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, December 02, 2002 4:51 PM
Subject: Re: ugnet_: Sh70,000 salary???-Now AGOA girls complain over poor
pay, insults
AGOA girls complain
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To those of us who are in Uganda, and on this forum,
please keep us in touch and informed about the condition of these
girls in the sweat-shops that this Shri-Lankan is starting in Uganda.
No fucking foreigner should be allowed to come in our country
and slap, strike our people loike we are garbage.
This is not the first complaint about these sweat-shops in Africa
let alone other parts of the world.
In Lesotho girls are paid a pittance in the same sweat-shops that is
not even enough to pay for transport to and fro.
The owners of these sweat-shops should know that quite a sizable
amount of the apparel they produce is sold here in North America
on University Campuses.
We know the system on these campuses. To shut down this end
is very easy.
Let the owners not kid themselves.
One other point. Why keep on importing Indians to compete
with our people when we have such high unemployment rates.?
It is only in Africa that there is no no protection for their workers!!
Things have got to change.
What are the MP's, especially those representing labour,
doing in Parliament?
We have to put to a stop this nonsense where we allow our
people to be treated as scond class citizens in their own country!
Keep us informed on this issue.
The girls should be organized in unions and establish links with us.
Dear Assumpta we also have to organize here. These girls are going
to need help. The sweat-shop industry is not a tea-party. And it is
going to get more ugly!!
>From: Omar Kezimbira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: ugnet_: Sh70,000 salary???-Now AGOA girls complain over poor pay,
>insults
>Date: Mon, 2 Dec 2002 00:45:27 -0800 (PST)
>
>Now AGOA girls complain over poor pay, insults- The MonitorBy Carolyne
>Nakazibwe & Mwanguhya Charles MpagiGirls undergoing training at the Academy
>of Apparel Technology in Bugolobi have threatened to destroy the factory if
>their needs are not addressed.
>Four of the girls The Monitor talked to on phone yesterday claimed they
>were being beaten, underpaid and insulted by their Sri Lankan bosses.
>The girls, who requested anonymity, said they had refused to attend classes
>and demanded to talk to President Yoweri Museveni, before they sign any
>contracts with Tri-Star Apparel Exports Ltd.
>Tri-Star is running the training programme meant to promote the African
>Growth and Opportunities Act (AGOA), spearheaded by the president. Six
>hundred and fifty girls have been undergoing the tailoring course for five
>months, and they have been offered jobs at the factory starting Dec. 1.
>The girls said they could not sign the contracts offering a Shs 70,000
>(about $35) monthly salary.
>They say the money is too little.
>"We did not come here to develop our stomachs, but our future. They [Sri
>Lankans] are now bringing in Indians to do the jobs and they are
>marginalising us. How can you be slapped in front of everyone for a small
>mistake?" one of the girls said.
>However, Special Presidential Assistant on AGOA Susan Muhwezi said the
>girls were lying about the strike and Indian workers.
>"There is no strike, they only had some complaints about salaries. The
>girls coming from poor families are happy, but there are those that went in
>through [wrong means] expecting salaries of Shs 300,000," Muhwezi said.
>She said she had been to the factory and talked to Tri-Star Managing
>Director Vellupillai Kananathan.
>When The Monitor visited the factory, there were no signs of a strike, but
>a few girls were loitering in the compound. Sources at the factory said
>Trade minsiter Richard Nduhuura was addressing the girls, but some had
>stayed away and refused to listen to the minister's speech.
>Muhwezi laughed off the girls' threat to destroy the factory, saying
>government had done its part.
>"How can they destroy the factory? This is a private enterprise. Government
>said the girls were to be trained by Tri-Star. If Tri-Star wants to retain
>them, that is their business," she said. "When you have 650 girls, it is
>like a school and they can be quite unreasonable sometimes."
>Kananathan was reportedly in a meeting when The Monitor tried to contact
>him.
>
>
>November 30, 2002 06:28:32
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"Ivinicus factus sum veritabem diceus." ( I have become an enemy for
speaking the truth ) St Paul!
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Mitayo Potosi
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