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5p an hour women shame UK stores
Workers in Bangladesh are regularly working 80 hours a week for just 5p an hour, in potential death trap factories, to produce cheap clothes for British consumers of Primark, Tesco and Asda’s ‘George’ range...[The] findings in a [War on Want, UK charity] new report, Fashion Victims, [are] based on research among employees at six Bangladeshi factories...which employ over 5,000 workers, mainly women... Primark [part of Associated British Foods], Tesco and Asda [part of Wal-Mart]have all made public commitments to the payment of a living wage to suppliers –...calculated to be a minimum £22 a month in Bangladesh... Louise Richards...War on Want, said: “Bargain retailers...are only able to sell at rock bottom prices in the UK because women workers in Bangladesh are being exploited...”