War on Want Report on Primark, Tesco & Adsa

The report comes two years on from War on Want’s original Fashion Victims report, published in December 2006, which found that garment workers struggle to survive on extremely low pay, suffering poor working conditions, arduous hours and a complete lack of trade union representation in the factories.

Two years on, this new report shows workers making clothes for Primark, Tesco and Asda are still being exploited, despite promises from companies to improve the lives of their workers. In fact, given the damaging effects of the global food crisis, workers are now in an even worse position than they were before. For too long the UK government has supported purely voluntary initiatives for improving the rights of overseas workers. But as this report shows, there have been few steps taken to improve workers’ rights, pay or working conditions within these mechanisms. The UK government must act to regulate the operations of its companies, both in the UK and overseas.

To read the report visit http://www.waronwant.org/fashionvictimsII