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14 Sep 2007

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Labour Behind the Label, War on Want

[PDF] full report: "Let's Clean Up Fashion"

Last year, Labour Behind the Label and our partners interrogated the biggest fashion brands and retailers on the high street to find out what they were doing to improve wages for the workers in their supply chains… We have returned to each of the companies profiled, one year later, giving them the chance to update us on the progress they had made…For detailed company responses...please contact Labour Behind the Label: email [email protected] or visit www.cleanupfashion.co.uk...In this update, we focus on living wages…Time and time again we see that poverty wages, long working hours and bad working conditions are the rule, not the exception, no matter which high street retailers we buy from... The worst offenders: Bhs [part of Arcadia], Diesel, House of Fraser, Kookaï [part of Vivarte Group], Matalan, MK One, Moss Bros, Mothercare, Peacocks/Bon Marche [part of Peacock Group], River Island, Rohan Designs, Ted Baker… Nothing to show: French Connection, Laura Ashley, Mosaic Fashions… The new starters: Arcadia, Jigsaw [part of Robinson Webster Holdings], Primark… Disappointingly slow: Debenhams, Asda [part of Wal-Mart], H&M, John Lewis, Levi’s, M&S, Monsoon, Pentland, Sainsbury’s, Tesco, TJ Maxx [part of TJX], Zara [part of Inditex]… Going up a gear?: Gap, New Look, Next...