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“The True Cost of Cheap Clothing”
The Observer. Sunday April 23, 2006
At a Cambodian factory that supplies some of the biggest
names in British retailing, Nick Mathiason and
John Aglionby hear pleas for a fairer deal for hardpressed
workers.
“We do the same work as they do in other factories.
They just pay us less,” said Nut Chenda. A complaint
familiar to workers around the world, perhaps.
But Chenda may have a point. The Cambodian woman
works as a machinist for the Fortune Garment and
Woollen Knitting Factory, about 20 miles from the
Cambodian capital, Phnom Penh. The Taiwanese-owned
business sells garments to some of Britain’s biggest
retailers – among them, household names such as Next,
Debenhams and BHS, headed by Philip Green.
Nut Chenda and all the workers The Observer spoke
to last week outside the Fortune factory gates earn between
$ 50 and $ 60 a month. Even in Cambodia – one
of the world’s poorest countries – that is low, especially
as neighbouring factories, it is said, pay $ 90 to $ 100.
Though Fortune maintains it pays a “fair wage above
the legal requirement”.
That may be true but it is only part of what appears
to be a story of harsh conditions and aggressive responses
to union activity. Almost all the 30 workers
interviewed said conditions in the factory were poor.
Most people work in rooms of 600 people, they maintained.
“There are not enough fans and only two doors,
which are kept closed,” said Chenda.
“In the washing room there are lots of chemicals and
the ceiling is not high, so it gets very hot and stuffy,”
said another woman, who asked not to be named. “We
are given masks but they are not good enough, and we
often suffer the effects of chemical inhalation.”
Yim Sarun works in the washing room. “When the
buyers come to inspect the factory the managers bring
out the best equipment, like good gloves. They also
open the doors and increase the ventilation. But no one
is allowed to talk to visitors and after the buyers leave
they close the doors and take away the [new] safety
equipment.” Though workers admitted old and danger- 40
ous washing machines, which frequently caused accidents,
were replaced last year.
Since 2004, union leaders say, 200 people out of a
workforce of 2,500 have been dismissed for union activity.
Next month the workers plan to strike, seeking re- 45
instatement for a colleague dismissed recently, allegedly
for union activity, and demanding better pay.
“Over the past few years we have recognised unions
and work with them,” said Fortune. “There are three
unions recognised in the factory. We have only sacked 50
workers with the local courts’ authorisation, and we
follow local law.”
But the International Labour Organisation, a UN body
aimed at improving working conditions, particularly in
developing countries, has inspected it three times. In 55
2002, the ILO say, more violations were detected at Fortune
than at almost any other Cambodian company it
reviewed. In 2004 it had one of the worst records for
implementing ILO recommendations, and received the
greatest number of new recommendations. […] 60
Though Fortune is just one case, the issue goes to the
heart of contemporary retail, with pressure on suppliers
from retailers wanting to offer low prices while increasing
their own margins.
As prices in first world shops falls, consumer concern 65
about how this is possible has risen. Dan Rees is director
of the Ethical Trading Initiative, an industry-wide body
of retailers and unions that promotes best practice
throughout the supply chain. He said there had been
progress among some retailers over health and safety 70
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