Bangladeshis making cheap clothes for Asda [part of Wal-Mart], Tesco and Primark [part of Associated British Food] are paid as little as 3p an hour, according to a [War on Want, UK charity] report [Fashion Victims]...Basic pay in [garment] factories...could be just £8 a month for an 80-hour week...[W]orkers [also] complained that joining a trade union was banned...22 union members at a factory supplying Asda who demanded overtime pay last year were allegedly beaten, fired and imprisoned on false charges...Asda, Tesco and Primark are members of the Ethical Trade Initiative...Primark [part of said that if War on Want provided details of the factories, it would investigate...Tesco stated that its affordable clothing was not achieved through poor working conditions at suppliers...Asda said only organisations like War on Want and the retailers were trying to help workers and promised to introduce more unannounced audits and free phone lines for whistleblowers.