Illustration by Dato Parulava/OC Media.
Georgia’s textile industry is plagued by low salaries and rife with labour abuses. In this multi-part series, OC Media went inside the factories for a first-hand account. In part I, we look at how employees are organising and how the unions work (or don’t) at the Kutex and Imeri factories in Kutaisi.
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The Kvishkheti tunnel construction site. (Photo: Kartli.ge)
Sixty railway construction workers at an international company in Georgia’s central Shida Kartli region have left their job after unsuccessfully demanding a raise. [Read more…]
Georgian Manganese’s enrichment plant in Chiatura. (Mari Nikuradze / OC Media)
After starting a sudden and unsanctioned strike earlier this month, miners in Chiatura stitched their lips together to demonstrate how much their hazardous occupations cost. [Read more…]
