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Maybe retailes when outsources need to add requirement akin to not putting cats into microwaves like: Do not use child labout Do pay a fair wage Do have a
by Zenst 13y ago
Maybe retailes when outsources need to add requirement akin to not putting cats into microwaves like:
Do not use child labout
Do pay a fair wage
Do have a safe working enviroment
Do not compete with emergency services for road space.
etc etc
If the suppliers/retailers had that in the contracts then in places which bend towards such outcomes could at least be directed into a more sainer appoach too things. Extra penny on a T-Shirt or next news story about people dieing due too a T-Shirt lorry blocking the road. Hardly a tough choice but one which seems to be needed.
I don't blame the retail clothing industry, but they hardly help themselfs and less open than they could be. I suspect this may even be news too them at many levels and hardly an issue they should have to deal with, educating there suppliers. But I think they need too, even from a PR perspective it is disaster waiting too happen. Put another way, what good will come from this as it is an accident within accident waiting too happen. Still many did not even know about unsafe clothing factories until people died.
- eru 13y agoSee http://www.economist.com/news/business/21588393-workers-continue-die-unsafe-factories-industry-keeps-booming-bursting-seams http://www.economist.com/news/business/21588393-workers-cont...
- judk 13y agoIndeed. The retailers demand the lowest prices, and avoid thinking about it is possible to produce a shirt for $1. They are not innocent, they are lying to themselves at least.