Shortly after workers at Mizuno Plastic in Thailand established a union in December 2019, 33 of them were fired.
Just a few days after the Mizuno Plastic Workers Union was founded, management claimed it was making losses and announced a redundancy plan. Thirty two of the 33 dismissed workers had been involved in forming the union.
They set up a picket outside the company premises on 9 December 2019, and on 13 December they met the Labour Relations Committee, while the national and international trade union movement called for their reinstatement.
