Locked out of work! 1,300 ladies at underwear factory suddenly find themselves unemployed

Picture Bangkok Business News

A thousand ladies who turned up for work at a Thai underwear export company found they had been suddenly made unemployed. 

A notice on the locked gates of Brilliant Alliance Thai Global Co Ltd in Soi 7 at the Bang Phli industrial estate south east of the Thai capital Bangkok announced the bad news. 

Economic conditions and the pandemic had hit exports to Europe, the company said.

Bangkok Business News reported that the decision came as a shock. 

Though machiners had been moved to Indonesia and Vietnam in February the company had assured workers they would be employed as normal. 

With traffic being blocked at the company the employees moved to air their grievances elsewhere at a skills development office.

Now the process of providing proper compensation has begun for the 1,300 employees who find themselves out of a job. 

 

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And no even quarter-decent trade union movement in this country to protect anyone. ..

i guess you could say they got their knickers in a twist.

5 minutes ago, NCC1701A said:

i guess you could say they got their knickers in a twist.

I'm waiting for the companion story about ladies in Pattaya, out of work while still in their underwear

To say some had but a Brief career would be an understatement 

Key words here are Indonesia and Vietnam. Same words that came up in an article about a Panasonic battery factory a few months ago. And a shock absorber factory a few months before that. And also some rubber producing factory I believe. All the same outcomes, workers showing up to a locked factory, and sad goodbyes.

What is this country doing about all this fleeing business, and creating more favorable business conditions? I doubt it’s just the usual excuses, Covid and the strong baht. Perhaps more to do with how the govt operates, and its bureaucratic nonsense.

Strange because when i was running factories in Thailand the labor department were all over me for the smallest complaint or divergences the worker has put forward to them and here they are sacking 1300 of them without a care in the world...

Thai women should not buy the products made in Indonesia and Vietnam.  It is not as if this was about consumer cost. rather it is about the sweatshop operator profit.

5 minutes ago, Patong2021 said:

Thai women should not buy the products made in Indonesia and Vietnam.  It is not as if this was about consumer cost. rather it is about the sweatshop operator profit.

Spot on!  The garment industry is at the bottom of the 'bottom feeders'. It's all about exploitation in the country with the lowest wages and the most oppressive labor laws.

Brief encounter

The phantom knicker nickers only like used underwear, they won't be affected! 

Not sure why several members making lite the plight of 1300 sacked people with pun intended jokes, what so funny about so many people loosing their livelihood without warning or alternative fair solutions...

OK lads enough wise cracks about undies,  1300 ladies suddenly have no jobs, no income, no prospects of quickly finding new jobs.

There jobs, equipment being moved to Vietnam/ Indonesia, workers there  on less money than here.

So factory bosses/ owners just make more money, whilst not caring about workers, i very sad/ sick situation.

Long past time this so-called government stepped up and and did more to help/ protect workers, instead of sitting back only caring about their own bank balances.

55 minutes ago, tonray said:

I'm waiting for the companion story about ladies in Pattaya, out of work while still in their underwear

I'm researching that story right now. i will let you know when i publish it. 

1 minute ago, NCC1701A said:

I'm researching that story right now. i will let you know when i publish it. 

I'm guessing it will be sort of an 'expose' format ...ha ha ha ha

This made the news only because it's a big factory. The number of job losses due to many small businesses going bankrupt probably adds up to a lot more than a thousand.

12 minutes ago, colinneil said:

OK lads enough wise cracks about undies, 

ok i will stop now. 

Why not set up their own Undie cover operation?

An article about underwear without underwear. Let me fix that for you.

 

4 hours ago, NCC1701A said:

i guess you could say they got their knickers in a twist.

That's below the belt!

Knickere that dropped the Ladies as opposed to vice versa ?

6 hours ago, webfact said:

Economic conditions and the pandemic had hit exports to Europe, the company said.

But, but, exports are booming 

Its not a new thing tho. 40 years ago the biggest leather goods manufacturer in oz (locally owned) moved operations to Thailand, and around 8+ years later to Vietnam. Its all about chasing lower production costs (labour mainly) and increasing the companies bottom line

At the time oz was heavily unionised but they could do nothing to prevent the move

6 hours ago, webfact said:

Though machiners had been moved to Indonesia and Vietnam in February the company had assured workers they would be employed as normal.

This is the future, industry has been relocating to Vietnam for years, it's accelerating.

Why should new business come to Thailand, the land of restrictions and lists of rules and hoops to jump through.

The only thing a competing country needs to do is be slightly more welcoming than Thailand and they win.

This is globalist capitalism, I move where salary is lower, so my profit is bigger. 

Workers are subhumans for capitalists.

workers are nothing more than slaves, it's the elephant in the room that nobody is seeing

did you know that in ancient Rome, slaves were actually paid a lump sum compensation when they started with a new owner?

workers or being an employee these days is nothing more than slavery,

No severance? The Labor Department should be all over this.

8 hours ago, CrunchWrapSupreme said:

Key words here are Indonesia and Vietnam. Same words that came up in an article about a Panasonic battery factory a few months ago. And a shock absorber factory a few months before that. And also some rubber producing factory I believe. All the same outcomes, workers showing up to a locked factory, and sad goodbyes.

What is this country doing about all this fleeing business, and creating more favorable business conditions? I doubt it’s just the usual excuses, Covid and the strong baht. Perhaps more to do with how the govt operates, and its bureaucratic nonsense.

Never fear the Economic zone in the south east will save the day.

9 hours ago, Sticky Rice Balls said:

Now is their chance to unionize and start up a local undie shop.....can set up outside any thai brothel in LOS..take your pick...

Just think of the profit as thai men come out to buy a fresh pair before the missus catches a wiff and out comes the machete!

Bringing happiness to the people!.....At least they were allowed to leave with their own knickers on! ????

Because of the laws in Thailand I can't name names or the company, but a couple of decades ago someone at one of the country's largest companies tried to organise a union, and he was murdered. Plenty of fingers pointed to the company owner, one of the richest and most influential people in Thailand for arranging it, but nothing happened. Of course.

All alarm clocks should have started to sound already when machinery was moved to Indonesia and Vietnam, and where is the union.

In Europe is net sales booming, also with lingerie, so what about the export, it simply doesn't add up. I guess the wages are lower in Indonesia and Vietnam, and this is the only reason