STOP TRADE UNION BUSTING ACTIVITIES BY THE ATG GLOVES (PVT) LTD IN SRI LANKA
We, the undersigned, call upon the UN Global Compact (UNGC) to take effective action to cease trade union busting activities by one of its participants, the ATG Gloves (Pvt) Ltd, Sri Lanka, and to call on them to:
a) reinstate the 7 workers who have been unfairly dismissed from their factory at Wathupitiwala, Sri Lanka, for forming and joining the Commercial and Industrial Workers Union (CIWU);
b) show their commitment to UNGC’s Principle 3, ‘Businesses should uphold the freedom of association and the effective recognition of the right to collective bargaining’ by recognizing the Trade Union, the CIWU.
There is a history of anti-trade union practices by the ATG Group of Companies co-owned by Mr John Taylor, a British National, and Mr Fazal Abdeen, a Sri Lankan National: in 2021, 16 workers from their factory in Wathupitiwala; In 2018, 5 workers from their factory in Katunayake and the trade union organizer of their factory in 2021 had been unfairly dismissed for exercising their right to form and join a trade union.
Finally, we call upon the UN Global Compact to have an effective mechanism so as to hold its participants such as the ATG Gloves (Pvt), Sri Lanka, accountable for their breach in UNGC’s principles when workers exercise their right to free association and collective bargaining by forming and joining trade unions.
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