While billions of people are cheering on their favourite teams during the Women's World Cup, Nike – sponsor of thirteen of the teams – refuses to pay 1,284 Cambodian garment workers US$1.4 million in legally owed severance pay. Global women's rights organisation, ActionAid Australia, alongside the Manufacturing Division of the CFMEU and the garment workers they represent, are calling on Nike to pay their workers by the end of tournament. In July 2020, 1,284 women garment workers at the Violet Apparel Factory in Phnom Penh, Cambodia were let go when the factory abruptly closed during the COVID pandemic.

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