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Bangladesh Clothing Apparel Trade SHOCKING! on April 14th
thousand to
n the Institute for Global labour and human rights report a catalog abuses at
the International British
comments fact
Jordan unknown Supplier Walmart Nygaard
JCPenney and Dillard's
workers were reportedly trafficked from Sri Lanka Bangladesh
and India strip to their passports and routinely forced to work over 110 hours
a week
their house in appalling conditions and moreover cheated on her and her after
entitled to pay
a complete surprise according to a statement by night God
the instant has been predictably portrayed as a one-off
an anomaly that slipped through the net it measures implemented to defend the
rights to the workers supplying his clothing joints
appalled by these reports which are paramount slavery
I felt compelled to investigate further during my travels across Asia
I hope to speak to workers and officials to hear their side of the story
and to gain entry into a factory to film the conditions for everyone to see
the conditions are the garment industry in Bangladesh
are in general makes the worst in the world despite a hike in the minimum wage
in 2010
workers wages started 3,000 taka a month just thirty six dollars
this wage pools significantly shorter than acceptable living wage that is
enough to provide basic necessities such as food
clean water accommodation health and education trade unionists calculate a
living wage to be at least 5,000 taka
yet even as total would hardly break these workers
who for the most live in tiny dilapidated structures in Dhaka
sprawling slums lovecraft garments is a factory that has recently supplied:
Capen I got
we arrange to meet with several lovecraft workers at their home
they gave us an insight into the conditions in which they are forced to
live
and reveal that the factories breaking several labels
which garment factory today I
lovecraft comments okay how many people live in this room
done 10 and how many how many hours
do they work in at normal week to North
or so so when they do every time they worked out 120 hours
12 to 13 hours ago ans do they choose to do it I'm not
little *** in the field he said rule
is they have order in it too length appear
if they say best workers and the need to work overtime bangladeshi labor laws
state to the working day should be no longer than eight hours
with an optional two hours unpaid overtime how much they get paid him
money
left foot and 4,000 on this way to fifty dollars
the workers cannot provide for themselves and therefore larger their
uncle
her family have 10 can afford one small room in which to cook
sleep and live taking turns in the single bed a straight up a dozen such
families share one call it in water supply
the workers were confused when we asked about holiday entitlements
apparently they're offered compensation for not taking any time off work
although this extra income is appreciated by the impoverished workers
the practice is illegal leads to exhaustion the factory office half the
legal requirement
maternity leave just eight weeks the workers are therefore forced to work
grueling hours
latter stages of pregnancy endangering the health for both mother and child
the factory also provides no child care despite the fact that is a legal
requirement
and Anna love comments is there childcare
not much different than Latin look no has no choke
as child care or schooling represent another crippling
expense many workers are forced on a to send their children to stay with family
in rural areas
or let them grow up on the streets the times by workers in the industry to
improve their working conditions are met with suppression
factory workers routinely hire games to intimidate workers in breakup unions
deny workers freedom of association we met with a spokesperson from a national
garment workers Federation
who da village that other workers she was threatened daily by group of men
with *** and violence
if she did not drop the case you had raised against the factory the
backfield
threatened the old the workers the higher goals
long time
I area Andy tell them to beat them up the workers up anything that is gonna
need them to keep their mouth shut about
anything else the current think they're worth
me alone he was beaten up very severe
and thrown into the great into the sewer and
then the leaders they have help the first when she won
a longer for sale in the back she had expect by
the one's own the backfield and whenever she's to go to work
she's to find the mall staying there they yesterday
waiting for her and they say that they're gonna pick up probably
any day she doesn't withdraw the case issued by the gate
multinational buyers are responsible for these atrocious standards
well each year all these business they I no
with and we'll see domain
goalie phone is this it is actually with the
global this month national
their smoking and their this article the local thank you 10
that did she know that away
to a
the ways of the weather he happily ensure that
the workers their walking the beat condition bubble baths
just openly this up loss
the local business people that you have book that he used to address
factory owners consequently make few improvements in order to maintain
profitability
various gestures amazing potential working standards but often to little
effect
for example though legislation ninety manza
factories provide child care the low standards for this service
even where it is enforced means that the majority in others prefer
for their children to play in the slums we at a local man where these children's
mothers were
he said they're working looking gold
wasn't working for their work in the governor factors in the Gulf
to see for ourselves the conditions within the workplace we visited Southern
designers
a supposedly reputable factory that supplies Nygaard
and employs over a thousand women talking at length with one other
managers
I was shocked by the way he viewed workers as a commodity simply in assets
to be used for their own means
everything are not people are very hard working Yahoo
Bell anything there too right there are people
oh yeah move them but I'm for you
that
already
that
that
for you know
with me
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they don't like that
your your people yeah then
that ever red well so company are expected to provide child care
I witness just one play area but one supervisor
but only a handful children the world
for life
PNG wmf campaign only through a fair price
offered by multinational buyers can workers achieve a fair wage
in the right circle with it so
routes ASAP so for and I got so these
or thirty-seven dollars how much do you get
cool forrest gump you
my well yeah then energy
like travel
many the issues in bangladesh is shared by the Cambodian garment industry
the minimum wage is higher sixty one dollars per month
however the cost of living is also higher and the total is not considered
to be adequate in providing basic needs workers
a actual minimum wage
the mall in the system my son its
must yes too much at all and a mover
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because low-wage with past
the where so that a rooms
holidays and his stay evil
by Hills and some time you know no
even though you know fair because the
or and utilities this use
that vested even in which
alone and in the same leaves
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and yes a slight
and it doesn't and bowling us you know
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factors walking around the slum areas we were able to interview workers who
admitted that they could not consider starting a family
as I can only just support themselves %uh
I want to help the family
cannot in nineteen
for but a everyman of
and the money yes enough love this lady told us that she could not afford to
accommodate an educator children in the capital where she works
and they therefore have many miles from here with their relations
way calling here way chanterelle
they you at the Boleyn lyle locations all
many others company need advice is so says she doesn't like her children
any yeah making us capacity here
yeah River Ridge garments is a notorious company encourages
applies both wal-mart in I god in 2007 the dismissal at Union finders led to a
mass strike
demanding just working conditions and freedom of association
an agreement was eventually reached nevertheless according to a study by the
Community Legal Education Center
the company are once again violating various labels on human rights
up we tried to gain entry to the factory but after a lengthy time a security
where only permitted to walk around the factory buildings
later though we talk to workers who reported that around 10 percent of the
workforce achievement
however this is hard to prove is a factory reported forties documents as
proof have a chip
workers are forced to work between 10 and 12 hours a day seven days a week
the workers are rarely allowed holidays
similarly although workers are entitled to 18 days annual leave
they're only grounded this leave in special circumstances
although workers are entitled to paid sick leave
to Maximo two days the factory insists that they provide a sick note from a
designated hospital
as workers cannot afford the fees necessary to cure this document
they must either go unpaid will return to work before they've recovered
factory is not offer any maternity leave Cambodian law demands a fact sheet about
ninety days maternity leave
fifty percent pay workers instead are expected to take a couple other unpaid
days to recuperate
before beginning work again under a new probation or a contract
another major problem in cambodia is the use of short term contracts
company now that use I'll Sutter
I tour of all this trial of her for a while
helpful up I'll again
the million the Jew this author
and it shouldn't actually meant for
says track easy were
the mood yes all the time want the air
implement will not be this ploy is also used to rid the factory members are the
union's
and pregnant workers and you shouldn't either got the whole day
%um trim free your entry
the employees on p
well you so personally
what you know were sometime
were dishonesty by the slow
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see yes
then be Lee Roy business
she we going finish
lon Cohen garments produced clothing for now I gotta Reebok amongst others
on a portable August 2011 500 workers
factory went on strike in protest to the company's ill treatment of his employees
the factory employs underage girls
the claims substantiated by the admission of a 15-year-old worker we met
tax on the factory
it does is 15 years old and she works in the fight
okay
per month thirty dollars
we see her identity card in the camera Lucille
your help they legally take these girls on in exchange for cheaper labor cost
the Grateful teenagers forgo their transport allowance
work long hours overtime and accept a pitiful wage
the factory reportedly forces workers to do over time
typically demanding between 10 and 12 hours a day six days a week
no money in the world Monday
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factory does not provide any paid sick leave
again on its sick workers continue to come to work is obviously hinders a
recovery at the effective worker
and encourages spread the disease the factory reportedly discriminates against
workers recently dismissed two women becoming pregnant
to avoid paying for their maternity leave he's women I have no source of
income with which to support themselves through pregnancy
and provide for their children the hallway
all other Britain and because the law issue: well
in the company 41 yet you hell right
to what an idiot and you can't get fifty percent are
to sorry solar company didn't know what
past one year ago didn't want do this well
so the company they have good
this grave injustice represents more than a breach in label
it's a gross violation of human rights approach the mother
and the unborn children as in Bangladesh responsibility for these violations must
lie partially with a multinational buyers
with their insistence poor practices such as short duration contracts could
be prevented
more conscientious pricing they could fun better working conditions and a
higher minimum wage
yes his flock to you I you
UK you must be held so the UK
to liza from the his feel close not every company
the I'll what does the other company
huh just her and they have a right to a spot to
had a at all the slot Allison
wrong but my I
and how Mikey top
ya me got is out how
company strategist subcontractor I have that was the whole
another juice of copper palm for
other this goodness and again yet also
to a while good but in general
leedom here is another vehicle lead
them do well did
it was clear to me by the end my trip to the multinational buyers are the root
cause