Let's Clean Up Fashion 2009
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The scandalous truth is that the majority of workers in the global fashion industry rarely earn more than two dollars a day in an industry worth over £36 billion a year in the UK alone. Many have to work excessive hours just to get this meagre amount and have no possibility to earn wages needed to properly feed, clothe, house and educate their families. Let's Clean Up Fashion 2009, the latest report from Labour Behind the Label, reveals the truth behind the fashion industry's claims to have cleaned up its act.
In the last four years many of the biggest brands and retailers on the UK high street have publicly accepted that garment workers' wages need to increase and claim to have started work to eliminate poverty wages from their supply chains. However, few of the projects and plans developed in corporate offices in Europe or North America have had a tangible impact on the wages and lives of the men and women producing our clothes. Why? Because most projects have ignored the fundamental issues of freedom of association, price and distribution of profit, and have focused instead on making factories or workers more ‘productive.'
