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ND-Dem

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9. and we're proud to say we'll sweat our labor, whatever color, sexual orientation, or even age.
Tue Mar 31, 2015, 04:19 AM
Mar 2015
2015:

WASHINGTON -- Faced with footage of Bangladeshi girls as young as 12 working on jeans with "Old Navy" labels, Old Navy's parent company, Gap Inc., says it believes one of its contractors may have improperly sold its product to a wholesaler without its knowledge...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/27/gap-inc-old-navy-jeans-bangladesh_n_3822923.html


2007:

Child workers, some as young as 10, have been found working in a textile factory in conditions close to slavery to produce clothes that appear destined for Gap Kids, one of the most successful arms of the high street giant... the children described long hours of unwaged work, as well as threats and beatings.

Gap said it was unaware that clothing intended for the Christmas market had been improperly subcontracted to a sweatshop using child labour...The discovery of the children working in filthy conditions in the Shahpur Jat area of Delhi has renewed concerns about the outsourcing by large retail chains of their garment production to India, recognised by the United Nations as the world's capital for child labour...

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2007/oct/28/ethicalbusiness.retail



Nothing changes but the bullshit.

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