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Where exactly are primark, walmart etc exercising due diligence? After the factory fire 6 months ago they were supposedly going to look into the safety of workers in Bangladesh. Primark are apparently shocked, are they really??? they must know why the contracts are so cheap in Bangladesh?
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Of course I am not suggesting that Zeuhl. Forty years of working with a Third World Charity has shown me that many of these companies will put profit before their workers but I also know that things can change for those workers....if we make the effort to find out just what we are buying, where and how it is manufactured and how the workers are treated.
Will we do that once we have forgotten this tragedy? Will we bother to find out about the everyday lives of the people producing so much of what we wear and use? Somehow I doubt it. We have become too used to cheap throwaway T shirts.
Will we do that once we have forgotten this tragedy? Will we bother to find out about the everyday lives of the people producing so much of what we wear and use? Somehow I doubt it. We have become too used to cheap throwaway T shirts.
btw me how many on here have got "IPHONES"?
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/Will we do that once we have forgotten this tragedy? Will we bother to find out about the everyday lives of the people producing so much of what we wear and use? /
Directly related issues such as Health and Safety in the work environment - few people want to think people are losing limbs making their consumables.
Pay will be an issue - but still needs to be related to the local norms
Building Standards and other infrastructure standards are a bit dissociated.
And if jerry building or back-handers to local officials are the local norm it is difficult to affect that without disrupting and having a negative effect on the lives we would like to see improving
Directly related issues such as Health and Safety in the work environment - few people want to think people are losing limbs making their consumables.
Pay will be an issue - but still needs to be related to the local norms
Building Standards and other infrastructure standards are a bit dissociated.
And if jerry building or back-handers to local officials are the local norm it is difficult to affect that without disrupting and having a negative effect on the lives we would like to see improving
I`ve just answered it Zac. It won`t make the company bankrupt - it will force the company and others like it to ensure that their clothes are ethically sourced. I remember being in Madras many years ago when M&S were over there checking out places to get their leather goods made. They were very careful (as much as you can be anyway) that their goods weren`t made by slave kids in dangerous buildings. It can be done.
Stop buying and make the company buck up...why would they need to go bankrupt? How would spot checks and conditions cause bankruptcy?
Zeuhl....no time for a longer reply..sorry but I do know well from first hand experience about local officials and back handers, of course I do. But when I started...on my own.... to get Oxfam's finances away from Barclays I was told I was crazy...I am...but it grew and it worked. If we care we can do it somehow.
Zeuhl....no time for a longer reply..sorry but I do know well from first hand experience about local officials and back handers, of course I do. But when I started...on my own.... to get Oxfam's finances away from Barclays I was told I was crazy...I am...but it grew and it worked. If we care we can do it somehow.
Just for everyone's info, there is a company which specialises in ethically sourced clothing, called People Tree. Be warned though it is not cheap. What you have to remember is that, low though the wages are, it is sometimes the only income available to the poor of that country. It is work or starve. What is wrong is that the owner of the building knew of the cracks and still allowed the workers in there. It is my understanding that they were threatened with the sack if they didn't work. We may carp on about Health and Safety in this country. Over there it is non-existent. The owners should be made to compensate each and every family for loss of life. A lifetime's wages should just about do it. A drop in the ocean to them, but will mean some sort of future for the bereaved. Maybe time for one of our worthy politicians to poke their oar in.
Just seen this on child labour in Bangladesh ::::
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Look at all those well known names hanging up in the factory !
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Look at all those well known names hanging up in the factory !
Why is it that the British have to whip themselves on the back for all the world's ills?
Can we or our companies be held responsible for how foreign governments or their companies teat their workers.
I wonder when some try to have a go at capitalism, when they post such sentiments as this,
/// Capitalism = Profits before people. ///
Consider this, when they are carrying out their weekly shop at their local supermarket and looking for the cheapest prices, or at their local 'White Product' retailers, checking out the best deals on fridge/freezers, washing machines, dishwashers or large screen TVs?
Can we or our companies be held responsible for how foreign governments or their companies teat their workers.
I wonder when some try to have a go at capitalism, when they post such sentiments as this,
/// Capitalism = Profits before people. ///
Consider this, when they are carrying out their weekly shop at their local supermarket and looking for the cheapest prices, or at their local 'White Product' retailers, checking out the best deals on fridge/freezers, washing machines, dishwashers or large screen TVs?
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