Workers making clothes at a factory in India for…Tesco are toiling long hours for as little as 16p an hour – only half a living wage... Employees in the factory earn on average £38 a month, and the lowest paid receive just £30, while the Bangalore Garment and Textile Workers’ Union last year calculated a living wage as at least £52 a month. Employees complained that bosses forced them to work overtime or face the sack and they receive only half the extra hours recorded…Simon McRae, senior campaigns officer at War on Want, said: “Our new evidence again reveals how Tesco’s cheap clothing comes at the shameful price of workers’ poverty…” [includes link to full media briefing] [also refers to Primark (part of Associated British Foods)]