M&S supplier in dispute over Moroccan workers

One of Marks & Spencer's main overseas clothes suppliers is embroiled in a recognition battle with a trade union affiliated to an opposition Islamist party in Morocco. The dispute is disrupting production and has led to a spate of sit-ins and arrests of its workforce.

The British company Dewhirst, which closed factories in the UK and transferred production of womenswear to Tangier in Morocco in 2002, is in dispute over conditions, pay and claims that it discriminates against unionists.

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