HETAUDA, May 22 -- Unilever Nepal employees slammed the multinational company for not paying off the workers at its subsidiaries that have recently shut down. Two of the three subsidiaries whose products Unilever has been buying have closed after the multinational company stopped sourcing from them.
The trade union coordination centre, the common agency of the workers' unions at Unilever Nepal, said they were preparing to stage a sit-in at the main entrance of the Unilever factory in Makwanpur. Holding a press meet on Tuesday, the workers demanded that Unilever compensate and rehabilitate the workers who lost their jobs after its subsidiaries were closed.
Ganga Prasad Bhattarai, coordinator of the centre, said their protest would start on...