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Serious Jialat! Many VietBUs are laid off from Factories with the collapse in Demand in the West!

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Vietnam factory workers laid off as West cuts imports​


Tran Thi Minh Ha
Wed, 14 December 2022 at 2:24 am·4-min read


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Phan Thi Nhieu has spent a decade assembling shoes for worldwide brands such as Timberland and K-Swiss, but she is now among tens of thousands of Vietnamese factory workers laid off as Western consumers cut spending.
Almost half a million others have been forced to work fewer hours as orders fall in the Southeast Asian country, one of the world's largest exporters of clothing, footwear and furniture.
The cost-of-living crisis in Europe and the United States -- major markets for Vietnamese-produced goods -- has seen the buying power of Western shoppers plunge.

Women factory workers, who make up 80 percent of the labour force in Vietnam's garment industry, have been hit the hardest by the knock-on effect.
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Early last month, 31-year-old Nhieu -- who lives in a nine-square-metre (100 square feet) room in Ho Chi Minh City with her two young sons and husband -- was told she was no longer needed at Ty Hung Company, a Taiwanese shoemaker that supplies big Western labels.
"They told us they did not have enough orders," she said of Ty Hung's announcement that it would fire 1,200 of its 1,800 staff.
"I was so, so shocked and so scared, I cried, but I can do nothing, I have to accept it."
The job earned Nhieu just $220 a month in an expensive city where the average monthly income is $370, but the money was regular and a step up from the mushroom picking she did as a teenager in the heat of the Mekong Delta.

- 'Worse than Covid' -​

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Now, with just two months' severance pay to survive on, Nhieu must feed her family on a few dollars a day, and her kids are struggling to get enough to eat.
"We have no one to help us. I will have to get us through this on my own."
Since September, more than 1,200 companies -- mostly foreign businesses in the garment, footwear and furniture sectors -- have been forced to sack staff or cut working hours, according to the Vietnam General Confederation of Labour.
Compared with last year, orders are down 30-40 percent from the United States and 60 percent from Europe, where inflation and energy bills have soared because of the war in Ukraine.
More than 470,000 workers have had their hours slashed in the last four months of the year while about 40,000 people have lost their jobs -- 30,000 of them women aged 35 or older, the confederation said.
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Taiwanese giant Pouyuen, a Nike shoe producer, has put 20,000 of its workers on paid leave in rotation, while reports said Vietnam's largest foreign investor, Samsung Electronics, has started reducing its smartphone production at factories in the north.
The situation is bleaker than during the Covid-19 pandemic, say workers, who were helped out with food donations when strict quarantine measures forced them to stay home -- and were quickly in demand again once restrictions lifted at the end of 2021.
"It's not easy to find a new job like before (following the pandemic)," said Nguyen Thi Thom, 35, who was laid off from a South Korean garment firm that makes clothes for US retail giant Walmart.

- No dream -​

Since her factory work finished, Thom, who has three young children, spends her days on the streets of a shiny new suburban district of Ho Chi Minh City, selling dried noodles, shrimp sauce and oranges to passers-by.
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The slowdown has come as a shock because export businesses in Vietnam were running at "their fullest capacity" for the first half of 2022, according to Tran Viet Anh, deputy head of Ho Chi Minh City's Business Association.
"At the start of the third quarter, due to global inflation, consumption demands have shrunk, leading to the suspension of orders... and huge stock surplus," he told AFP.
But the downturn in Vietnam will likely only be temporary, Viet Anh added.
A cut in production during the pandemic led to a shortage of goods in the first six months of 2022, and the situation will likely repeat a year on.
Viet Anh said that "2023 will be a period where we increase production to compensate".
Until then, women like Nhieu and Thom, who form the backbone of a low-paid workforce that has helped Vietnam become a key manufacturing hub seen as an alternative to China, must find another way to keep their families afloat.
"I have never had the luxury of dreaming what I want from life. I have only one wish, of earning enough to survive," Nhieu said.
 

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Wonder why there are no Vietnamese maids when there are Thais, Pinoys, Burmese and Cambodians
 

Byebye Penis

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Frankly, some Vietbus are really sedap, both in boob size and complexion.
yes, came across educated decent ones, slim waist good-figure and friendly.

By and large, Vietnamese men are lazy and beat wives. If singapore allows more of them to work as admin or production crew in Singapore, many will end up marrying singaporeans.
 

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I thought these 2nd gen Yankees land vietboos are well educated etc n can get high SES jobs....why work as bikini babes?the pay higher meh?
$2 in tips for each $6.9 drink. can rack up (no pun intended) $500 to $800 a day, just in tits, oops i mean tips. after a few weeks it stacks up (again no pun intended).
 

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$2 in tips for each $6.9 drink. can rack up (no pun intended) $500 to $800 a day, just in tits, oops i mean tips. after a few weeks it stacks up (again no pun intended).
Ok so it's fine for a party time gig n as long as they invest wisely their returns will be much more....good for them if they invest wisely
 
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