power Danger. The grass roots campaign fighting HIV/AIDS in South Africa, the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) has called on activists across the world to mobilise locally and gobally against the profiteering of the pharmaceutical indusCampaigners across the world, including in Brazil, Chile, Italy, the United States and Brtain wil De protesting in solidarity with AC on the opening day of 42 major-companies against the South African govemcheap generic drugs and making them available to people with Aids.
For heath campaigners, trade unionists and socialists the grotesque levels of profits of these vast multinationals have long been a Global day of action against drug company source of Bristol-Myers Squibb and Roche are taking the South African el profita STENA SEn Gap makes profit from global exploitation: now anti-globalisation campaigners have made it a tanger their clothes 'Made in the USA,' but do not have to adhere to US labor laws. anti- Workers and shop groups filed a billion dollar lawsuit against Gap and 17 other retailers labour abuses in Saipan. company the problem is undoubtedly broader than Saipan. In Russia, Gap pays factory workers just 11 cents an hour and keeps them in slave-like Workers Macao contacted the Asia Monitor Resource Center in sq mile Hone Kong complaining ol abusive treatment by factory managers, who forced them include Guam, and to work Cessive ovue and cheated them out and Gap does A delegation from the US Many National Labor Committee in June 1999 reported that Honduran Gap factory workCompanies ers are subjected to forced tariff pregnancy tests, forced overime, exceedingly bigh production goals, locked bathrooms, and wages of SA/day, which only meet 1/3 of their Basic necur said that if tried to organise even become more But informed of their rights, they would be fired. They had never heard of Gap's code of In Indonesia, 700 workers went on strike in July, 1997 from protesting miserable wages factory management's refusal to recognise their independent union.
These are fust a few of the reasons why Gap will be a target of action this months. Gap with other brand multinationals like Nike - - are fitting targets of cspccially on sarconanone Women's Day We demand a living wage for all workers and the right to organisc.
this scheme applies only to Afnca and even the reduced price of $1500 a year is too expensive for most people in Third World countries.
"A victory for GSK and the other pharmaceutical giants will make cheap anti-HIV drugs illegal and condemn painful, slow death".
"GlaxoSmithKline's multiobscene. The argument that they need these mega profGSK made a profit of $7.6 billion in 1999, but invested only $3.75 billion in esearch that year.
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