For The Many Not The Few.

[webbo3]

For the many not the few, unless you live in India and are paid a pittance for Corbyns momentum group.

\\The shirts are manufactured for the Corbyn-backing Momentum group in a factory in Coimbatore.//

\\Rapanui, which manufactures the shirts, pay some workers less than half the wage needed to cover basic needs, sources claim//

Less than half the wage to live on.

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/4687310/t-shirts-cheap-labour-india-jeremy-corbyn-hypocrisy-claims/

Dave.

[emmie]

hypocrisy of the first order. as per usual.

[DTCwordfan]

if Jeremy has his way, they'll be lucky to get 20p a shirt, such is his grasp of economics.

[Gromit]

Rapanui is a British Company, and their brand is based on the sustainability of its sourcing. If anything, Momentum and the other customers of this firm, are the victims, if the allegation is true. The company claim to visit its suppliers factories, so we have a situation where it is their word, against 'the Sun'. I'm inclined to believe Rapanui.

// We're from the Isle of Wight in the UK, and we started our company in a garden shed with £200 and a mission: Make clothing more sustainable. That was in 2008. Times have changed and thankfully, so have our business premises: Our values and purpose is still the same. We make our products from more sustainable materials like Organic Cotton and British Wool. Most of our work in the first few years of our brand has been in helping customers understand where clothing comes from and how it's made. We created some of the first connected, traceable supply chain maps on the internet. You can scan the code inside every product we make and find out more info about it's origins. //

// Throughout we've sought to work with responsible suppliers that do things the right way. As well as being a Global Organic Textile Standard certified company ourselves, independent auditors inspect our overseas supply chain for a wide range of sustainability criteria from ensuring inks and dyes are not harmful and handled correctly, to ensuring pay and working conditions are fair (e.g. SA8000). We don't just rely on audits, we visit factories personally. That's what we think responsible fashion means. //

https://rapanuiclothing.com

[Gromit]

Momentum, and other customers of Rapanui cannot be expected to personally visit factories in far away countries. So they use a company that do that for them, and have the certification to prove it.

[237SJ]

There have been plenty of companies who have supposed to have audited their suppliers in India. Most of them are found to be wanting on that front

[naomi24]

Never one to support groups such as Momentum, in fairness a living wage in India is far from a living wage in the Western world. This is always a spurious argument. Remove the work - hardship ensues. So much for lofty ideals.

[Quizmonster]

The right-wing gutter press are really becoming desperate, aren't they?

[naomi24]

Quizmonster, let’s not be disingenuous. This sort of accusation rolls out across the board. Here’s one from the Guardian.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/feb/14/marks-and-spencer-workers-sri-lanka-india-bangladesh-earnings-living-wage-labour-behind-the-label

[1ozzy]

As long as the western world consumes throwaway items a cheap source of labour and power to run the factories will be found.

[youngmafbog]

Do as I say, not as I do.

Simples.

[webbo3]

Why are they not made here in the uk?

[scooping]

Quizmonster: The 'Right-wing press' is factually correct. Got a problem with the truth?