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Article

8 Dec 2006

Author:
BBC

UK firms 'exploiting Bangladesh'

...The mainly female [textile] workers [in Bangladesh] regularly spend 80 hours per week in "potential death trap" factories [making cheap clothes for UK companies Tesco, Asda and Primark], according to anti-poverty group War On Want. [The companies]...all strongly denied the allegations...It said that...Primark [part of British Foods], Tesco and Asda [part of Wal-Mart] had all signed up to a set of principles to provide decent working conditions and wages for workers in their supply chain...