Peace & Justice Organizing in Vietnam

Nike Supplier Closes Unionized Factory, Shifts Work to Vietnam

Authors: the Clean Clothes Company

Summary:

On February 22, 2007, the unionized BJ&B garment factory in the Dominican Republic suddenly announced that it was closing and would lay off all workers. The owners of the factory are shifting the work to Vietnam, where independent unions are banned, and possibly to Bangladesh, where unions are banned in "export processing zones."

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Vietnamese Lawyer Jailed for Union Advocacy

Authors: the Committee to Protect Vietnamese Workers and Le Thi Cong Nhan

Summary:

The state-owned union is not interested in organizing strikes. When workers initiate strikes, they're classified as illegal.

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Released from Vietnamese Prison After 26 Years, Buddhist Monk Reissues Call for Democracy

Authors: the International Buddhist Information Bureau interviewing Thich Thien Minh

Summary:

The prison authorities never informed Thich Thien Minh's family. His brother thought he had died in the camp.

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Manifesto for Democracy in Vietnam

Authors: Bloc 8406

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The one-party political regime must be buried, once and for all, in the dustbin of history.

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