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H&M accused of failing to ensure fair wages for global factory workers

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By Kieran Guilbert

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"There is no universally agreed level for living wages, and wage levels should be defined and set by parties on the labour market through fair negotiations between employers and workers representatives, not by Western brands"

Corporate speak for "Not our problem, don't hold us to all those promises we made about ensuring workers making our stuff made enough to eat, that was just PR talk and we never thought we'd be held to it."

Its worth remembering that over 1,000 workers died making H&M clothing in a factory collapse in Bangledesh in 2013 and they promised to clean up their act after that. Never shopping there again.

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To the surprise of absolutely no one.

*Added to the growing list of boycotted vendors.

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"H&M needs to take action immediately to stop the scandal of poverty wages and workers' rights violations," said Bettina Musiolek of the CCC, an alliance of labour unions and charities.

Many Swedes, especially the fundamentalists of the Social Democratic Church, love to be preachy to other developed nations about drugs, refugees, prostitution etc. but when there are issues with Swedish corporate 'icons' like H& M or Ikea it's silent ..

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