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23 Sep 2013

Author:
Richard Bilton, BBC News

Bangladeshi factory workers locked in on 19-hour shifts [Bangladesh]

…Ha Meem Sportswear works incredible hours…a guard…locks the main factory gate and wanders away…If anything goes wrong, the workers are trapped inside…That's a nineteen and a half hour day…One worker agrees to talk. He earned about £2 for the shift and he's exhausted…The managers show us the order they're working on…for the discount supermarket Lidl…Lidl said…findings were "concerning…Change, however, takes time and constitutes…a challenge…for all active companies in the retail industry… it had invested more than £6m to improve the living and working conditions in Bangladesh…Ha Meem Sportswear denied that workers were forced to work 19-hour shifts or that they were locked inside…Mohammad Abdul Jabbar who lost his wife and sister-in-law..[in Tazreen factory fire]…were shown photos of boxes of Edinburgh Woollen Mill clothes taken inside Tazreen Fashion following the fire last November…The company…denies its clothes were made at the factory, but now says it has offered financial assistance.

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