Thai Fast Food Workers Fight for a Fair Share

Episode 14 November 10, 2021 00:32:59
Thai Fast Food Workers Fight for a Fair Share
Solidarity Center
Thai Fast Food Workers Fight for a Fair Share

Nov 10 2021 | 00:32:59

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Show Notes

In Thailand, Apantree Charoensak, a former union leader who led a campaign to organize fast food workers at KFC, describes on this week’s Solidarity Center Podcast how workers overcame the company’s opposition to successfully form a union and win better wages and working conditions. “They said they would get me out of the company, if […]

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