Today, Remake Our World is calling out The Children's Place for cancelling orders from Ethiopia and delaying payments by 6 months. Imagine your boss telling you to come to work and they’re not paying you for the next 6 months. That’s just insane, most people wouldn’t be able to pay rent or food. They are taking advantage of people of color! Just look at this shocking statistic, “Ethiopian workers are the lowest paid in the global garment supply chain, earning about $26 a month, compared to $95 in Bangladesh and $326 in China.” That really blows my mind! This is unacceptable. The Children's Place, there is no excuse for not paying the factory that makes your clothes when you make almost $2 billion in revenue. Pay your garment workers properly! “Tamaru who works at the factory, usually makes $27 a month, working 9 hours a day, 6 days a week. His wages have been cut in half making buying basic food unaffordable, ” according to The Guardian. “We are a company with 95% women workers. Some [of the workers are] mothers,” the supplier said. Asked what the company could do legally to recoup the hundreds of thousands of dollars lost, the supplier responded: “How do you fight such a big US corporation? They have endless pockets.” But, The Children's Place isn’t the only brand exploiting Ethiopian workers, “H&M, Calvin Klein and Tommy Hilfiger set up factories for producing low-cost garments.” H&M has made its net worth at almost $20 Billion. These fashion brands clearly have more than enough money to pay all of its garment workers. This is what happens when you continue to ignore the people and cut costs. That is how mass wealth is accumulated. I don’t care if they sell clothes that are made out of recycled fish nets. Because the people who made them are starving while the decision makers at H&M make their billions. H&M illegally laid off 1,200 garment workers in India without notice. H&M’s factory is called Gokuldas Exports (GE), 900 of the laid off workers were in the garment & textiles workers union. None of these fashion brands care about their garment workers. 28-year-old Shobha said “I’ve been producing for H&M for more than 6 years. and just one fine day they laid us off with no notice. They’ve left our families to starve.”
Sign the petition to tell these Fashion Brands to pay up here: https://www.change.org/p/unless-urban-outfitters-jcpenney-c-a-payup-millions-of-garment-makers-will-go-hungry Stay up to date here: https://remake.world/stories/news/payup-brand-updates/ Please spread the word by sharing this with your friends and family. Boycott these brands. Choose to thrift instead. Demand change by calling these brands out!
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AuthorHi everyone, I’m Elizabeth! I am a Chinese American and Canadian environmental activist focused on creating awareness on environmental justice issues and tying them to fast fashion and our waste and climate change crisis. I’m very open about my mental health. I talk about these important topics on my platform Archives
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