Adidas World Cup workers in strike sack

WORKERS earning £1.90 a day making World Cup goods for Adidas have been fired over a strike.

After 400 staff at the Pou Chen footwear factory in Myanmar walked out last month, the 29 deemed responsible lost their jobs. They wanted £3.20 a day. The junta ruling since last year’s military coup has outlawed trade unions.

Adidas is 2022’s official outfitter of the World Cup.

A spokesman said: “Adidas has objected strongly. We have called on Pou Chen to reinstate the dismissed workers.”

Adidas is “working to address this situation” after eight 78p/hour staff at Cambodian supplier Trax were fired after allegedly forming a union.

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