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Article

18 Nov 2014

Author:
Hannah Gould, Guardian Sustainable Business blog

Experts discuss how to achieve fair wages in the fashion industry

The recent fashion industry scandal that’s embroiled high street brand Whistles, fashion magazine Elle, and feminist campaign group The Fawcett Society, has again brought the wages of garment workers into mainstream conscience. We asked experts from business, trade unions and campaign groups what needs to happen in order to change the situation, as in Mauritius, where garment workers are paid 62p an hour for making the T-shirts consumers will buy for £45. [Contributions from Martin Gemzell (War on Want), Alke Boessiger (UNI Global Union), Phil Chamberlain (C&A Foundation), Daniel Vaughan-Whitehead (ILO), Anna McMullen (Clean Clothes Campaign), Andy York, JD Williams, Ruth Vermeulen, Fair Ware Foundation, Harpreet Kaur (Business & Human Rights Resource Centre)] [refers to Inditex, H&M, M&S, Whistles]