SWEAT SHOPS

A recent Guardian investigation revealed that Spice Girls tee shirts, sold to raise money for Comic Relief’s “Gender Justice” campaign, were made in a factory in Bangladesh where women earn the equivalent of 35p an hour. The 4000 machinists at the factory work from 8am until 5pm six days a week, but are regularly forced to do overtime, sometimes working 16-hour shifts finishing at midnight. The women claim to be verbally abused and harassed and conditions are so poor that employees often faint in the heat of the factory. Many experience neck and back problems from constantly crouching over their sewing machines.

This report comes a few weeks after the fifth anniversary of the horrifying Rana Plaza building collapse which killed 1138 Bangladeshi garment workers and highlighted the unsafe working conditions in many of these sweatshops.

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