Working Overtime
by By Markéta Hulpachová, The Prague Post, Czech Republic - Schoolbags, satchels and leather seat covers. Each day, hundreds of these items pass through the agile hands of the seamstresses at Sněžka Náchod, a leather and textile producer in east Bohemia. Needleworkers are allegedly a dying breed in the Czech Republic, so company director Miloslav Čermák employs migrant workers from remote countries such as Moldova, Mongolia and Vietnam. However, one nationality is conspicuously absent from this spectrum.

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