DUH! REALLY??

How do people think these £5 Denim jeans where made when they're fighting each other for them in Primark?!

From the BBC News Website 8/12/06....

Textile workers in Bangladesh get paid as little as five pence an hour to make cheap clothes for UK companies Tesco, Asda and Primark, says a report.
The mainly female workers regularly spend 80 hours per week in "potential death trap" factories, according to anti-poverty group War On Want.

Tesco, Asda and Primark all strongly denied the allegations.

War On Want based its report on interviews with 60 workers from six Bangladeshi garment factories.

It said that starting wages at the factories were as little as £8 a month, barely one third of the living wage in Bangladesh.

War On Want added that wages rose to £16 per month for better-paid sewing machine operators, but that some workers spent up to 96 hours per week in the factories without even a day a week off.

It said that while Primark, Tesco and Asda had all signed up to a set of principles to provide decent working conditions and wages for workers in their supply chain, some of their suppliers were "regularly violating" such rules.

"Bargain retailers such as Primark, Asda and Tesco are only able to sell at rock bottom prices in the UK because women workers in Bangladesh are being exploited," said War on Want chief executive Louise Richards.

"The companies are not even living up to their own commitments towards their overseas suppliers."

War On Want said it wanted UK shoppers to know what it saw as the "true costs" of clothes sold by the three retailers.

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