McNamara.LaborPractices by Colin McNamara

Emma Ross

colinmcnamara54 — 2024-11-02 18:35:33 UTC

“The fast fashion industry employs approximately 75 million factory workers worldwide. Of those workers it is estimated that less than 2% of them make a living wage.”

Emma Ross

colinmcnamara54 — 2024-11-02 18:35:33 UTC

"After this incident, building inspections were done on 1,106 factories used by fast fashion companies and 80,000 safety related issues were found."

Good On You

colinmcnamara54 — 2024-11-02 18:35:33 UTC

“It has been linked to recent human rights violations in its supply chain, including ongoing cases of wage theft in Cambodia.”

Good On You

colinmcnamara54 — 2024-11-02 18:35:33 UTC

“It claims to have a program to improve wages but there’s no evidence it ensures its workers are paid living wages in most of its supply chain.”

Anthony Lloyd

colinmcnamara54 — 2024-11-02 18:35:33 UTC

“The International Labour Organisation (2017) reported global estimates of modern slavery at around 40 million, with 25 million people in forced labour.”

Anthony Lloyd

colinmcnamara54 — 2024-11-02 18:35:33 UTC

“National employment protections are often circumvented by employers in order to maximise profitability or gain Trends in Organized Crime (2020) 23:1–6 3 advantage; from the illegal employment of failed asylum seekers on subsistence wages (Lewis et al. 2015) to the failure to pay National Minimum Wage rates to ‘fast fashion’ garment workers in the UK (Kelly 2020).”

Connection

colinmcnamara54 — 2024-11-02 18:35:33 UTC

These two quotes both describe safety issues in working environments and workers rights being violated.

Connection

colinmcnamara54 — 2024-11-02 18:35:33 UTC

These quotes are related by how they both describe wage issues for workers and how they don't make a living wage.

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colinmcnamara54 — 2024-11-02 18:35:33 UTC

Both these quotes explain how businesses have illegal workers by putting people in forced labor.