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Chinese T-shirts add insult to injury of textiles workers

24 Jul '06
1 min read

National Union of Metalworkers of SA (Numsa) has decided to apologise to textile workers union after it distributed low priced Chinese T-shirts to its members during regional conference in Cape Town at the weekend.

Distribution of Chinese T-shirts added insult to the injury as textile industry has been badly affected by the cheap imports of Chinese clothes in local market.

Participants were dismayed to see that T-shirts were not made in South Africa and decided to return the same but were satisfied after organizers promised that it would not be repeated.

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