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LARGE AREAS AND WORKING CONDITIONS IN THE CLOTHING INDUSTRY


The workers who make clothes Carrefour in Bangladesh paid poverty wages between 21 and 34 euros

Clean Clothes Campaign, coordinated by the Setem in Spain, presented the report "Spend per box. Hypermarkets and working conditions in the garment industry. "

The report presents the results of research carried out during 2008 in 30 factories supplying Lidl, Aldi, Tesco, Wal-Mart and Carrefour in Thailand, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and India. During the act of filing, Albert Sales, coordinator of the Clean Clothes Campaign in Catalonia and responsible for the report, explained that the conditions of women workers and workers of these factories "breaching the most fundamental conventions of the International Labour Organization and the root of this problem is the pressure exerted by large retailers over their suppliers, demanding price and delivery times impossible without detailed control actual production conditions. "


wages in poor countries is far from meeting basic needs and ensure a decent standard of living. According to the report's findings, in most countries producing clothes, the legal minimum wage or the average wage in the sector is about 50% of estimated should be a living wage.

Most of the 31 workplaces investigated (suppliers of Tesco, Wal-Mart, Carrefour, Aldi and Lidl) met the legal minimum wage. None of the salary allowed factories meet basic needs. The factories of Bangladesh paid a base salary of between 17 and 24 euros per month. Counting overtime, the workers were paid between 21 and 34 euros.

The real normal working day began at 8 am and ended between 7 and 10 pm seven days a week. None of the tested plants became a real-time less than 60 hours. Extra hours are not recorded to overcome the audits and to avoid having to pay all workers.

Regarding trade union rights, the four countries recognize freedom of association but only one of the 31 plants analyzed had union representation. In Bangladesh, a state of emergency remains suspended union activities for years. Sales


also believes that the trade policies of these corporate giants also have a strong impact on our cities. According to data compiled by the report, the three leading companies in the food marketing (Carrefour, Eroski and Mercadona) account for 40% of market share, and two of these companies are also distribution of textile products. The opening of a large area is an average loss of 276 jobs and closure of small shops in a radius of twelve miles.

Behind the manufacture of many products sold in supermarkets, "the working conditions are unacceptable and are being systematically violated the same standards that corporations provide their commitments and business ethics initiatives", warning Albert Sales.

The coordinator of the Clean Clothes Campaign, Albert Sales, reminiscent of transnational corporations that "your rhetoric regarding corporate social responsibility requires them to respond to the situations of poverty and exploitation experienced by people who make their products. "