Campaign launched in Switzeralnd for exploited Asian “fashion victims”

Swiss clothing companies do not pay seamstresses in Asia enough to live on, according to organisers of a new campaign.

Unions and non-governmental organisations (NGOs) are demanding workers be given an additional ten cents for every T-shirt they make. They are also exerting pressure for a universal wage model.

“Despite working 13-hour days, a seamstress earns only 20-60 per cent of what she needs to live on,” according to the Berne Declaration, an umbrella body of NGOs. More...

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