‘Nothing Left But Fear’: Vietnam’s Factory Crisis Worsens
- Scared, mostly female, workers flee cities amid Covid outbreak
- Exodus to worsen global supply-chain woes, hurt Nike, Adidas
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Whether yoga pants and Air Jordans appear under Christmas trees in the U.S. and Europe may come down to Vietnamese assembly line workers like Le Thi My.
My is part of an exodus of factory employees who have gone back to their home villages from Vietnam’s southern industrial belt, the epicenter of the nation’s worst coronavirus outbreak. Millions more are poised to follow, as months-long mobility restrictions that confined workers to cramped housing recently eased.