Workers are being illegally forced to keep working overtime ( US-based companies)

[Judi Lynn]

in Honduras to compensate for being away from work during the curfew:

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As the society breaks down into a coup-provoked crisis, the Women's Collective CODEMUH writes in to that workers in offshore assembly plants have been forced to work overtime to make up for time lost due to the coup's curfews, in clear violation of labor law.

The Collective notes, "According to Article 23 of the Labor Code, "Workers can participate in profits or benefits of the boss, but never assume the risks and losses," meaning that business cannot charge workers for the losses caused by the national political crisis, which the businessmen and women are key actors in causing. Ladies and gentlemen, you cannot force workers to pay for the losses that you provoked with the coup d'etat. "We call on transnational brands like Nike, GAP, Adidas, Hanes, HBI and Walmart, among others, as well as university students in the U.S. and consumers in general, who wear the products produced in the sweatshops of Honduras, to demand the offshore industry pay its workers for the days they did not show up for work due to the curfew of the de facto government, without requiring that they make up these days. And that the workers refuse to accept these extra days."

September 28, 2009

Acoustic and Chemical Attacks on the Brazilian Embassy
The Sound and Fury of the Honduran Coup
By LAURA CARLSEN

http://www.counterpunch.org/carlsen09282009.html

[Downwinder]

1. With no government or Constitution, nothing is illegal, anarchists reign.