GeofCox on Nostr: Many British 'fast fashion' brands, including Tesco, Matalan and Next, are complicit ...
Many British 'fast fashion' brands, including Tesco, Matalan and Next, are complicit in keeping garment workers on starvation wages...
"Rafiq is just one of four million workers powering Bangladesh’s garment industry; one of the world’s biggest producers of fast fashion. But despite the surge in manufacturing, Bangladesh still has one of the lowest minimum wages in the world, which has remained at 8,000 taka (£57) a month since 2018...
Last month, Bangladeshi workers making clothes for the UK high street said they had been left to steal and scavenge food from fields to feed their children."
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2023/dec/23/woman-making-christmas-jumpers-for-uk-turns-to-sex-work-to-pay-bills
"Rafiq is just one of four million workers powering Bangladesh’s garment industry; one of the world’s biggest producers of fast fashion. But despite the surge in manufacturing, Bangladesh still has one of the lowest minimum wages in the world, which has remained at 8,000 taka (£57) a month since 2018...
Last month, Bangladeshi workers making clothes for the UK high street said they had been left to steal and scavenge food from fields to feed their children."
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2023/dec/23/woman-making-christmas-jumpers-for-uk-turns-to-sex-work-to-pay-bills