Kanye West's £150 Yeezy trainers are made by Chinese workers earning just £147 a MONTH
- INVESTIGATIONS, NEWS
- April 12, 2017
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Tesco and Sainsbury’s school uniforms made by workers paid 25p an hour0
- INVESTIGATIONS, NEWS
- September 12, 2015
The Sunday Mirror investigates true cost of school kit. We have removed the names to protect the workers who spoke to us Gethin Chamberlain for The Sunday Mirror, 12 September 2015 Two of Britain’s top stores are selling school uniforms made by workers paid 25p an hour doing shifts that break employment laws. Tesco and
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Kanye West’s £150 Yeezy trainers are made by Chinese workers earning just £147 a MONTH1
- INVESTIGATIONS, NEWS
- April 12, 2017
Apache Footwear staff are paid the equivalent of 85p an hour based on a five-day week to make the star’s Adidas trainers Gethin Chamberlain for The Daily Mirror, 12 April 2017 Factory workers making Kanye West ’s new Adidas trainers are paid just £147 a month, £3 less than the price of the £150 sneakers.
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The grim truth of Chinese factories producing the West’s Christmas toys0
- INVESTIGATIONS
- December 6, 2016
Investigation exposes low wages, hazardous chemicals and overtime beyond legal limits Gethin Chamberlain for The Observer, 4 December 2016 Xiao Fang thinks she’s one of the luckier workers making Barbie dolls for the Christmas market at the Mattel toy factory in Chang’an. True, she says, she works 11-hour days, six days a week, and shares
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Corbyn’s sweatshop T-shirts: Poverty-stricken workers paid just 49p an hour0
- AMERICAS, INVESTIGATIONS, NEWS
- September 13, 2015
* In Nicaragua, Corbyn T-shirt workers are paid £101 a month for shifts * ‘Team Corbyn’ garments sold out, raising £100,000 for his campaign * The T-shirts cost supporters £10 with the added postage cost of £3.50 * Corbyn spoke of his determination to combat poverty and inequality in an impassioned victory speech Gethin Chamberlain, for
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