Struggle at the South Korean Willbes Company sweatshop in Port-au-Prince

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Action Alert—Haiti, issued by the Haiti Support Group, 26 September 2003. The Haiti Support Group joins the Batay Ouvriye workers' organisation in condemning recent acts of aggression against workers in Port-au-Prince garment assembly factories operated by the South Korean Willbes Company. On 12 August workers at the Willbes Haitian S.A. factory No. 5 in the Shodecosa Industrial Park were beaten up and shot at by armed factory security guards and riot police.
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Issued by the Haiti Support Group on 25 November 2003. Concerns that on 12 August workers at the Willbes factory were beaten up and shot at by armed factory security guards and riot police. Subsequently a new factory manager at Shodecosa Factory No. 5 began arbitrarily firing the workers involved.