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H&M faces wage protests

H&M is nowhere near ensuring a living wage for workers who make H&M clothes. Hundreds of thousands of workers sewing H&M clothes cannot feed their families, send their children to school, see a doctor when they need one, or cover other basic needs.

The continued failure by H&M to ensure a living wage exposes women garment workers to risks of violence in numerous ways. Workers in parts of H&M’s vast supply chain have been speaking up about their working conditions and expressing solidarity. Workers in Bulgaria earn less than one-tenth of an estimated living wage.

A wave of actions against poverty wages has hit H&M’s largest markets and production locations. There have been street actions and online campaigning in Austria, Belgium, Cambodia, Croatia, India, Indonesia, Italy, Germany, Hong Kong, the Netherlands, Romania, Spain, Sri Lanka, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, USA, and Turkey, among others.

In Italy, actions have included a flash mob turning up in front of an H&M store in Milan during prime shopping time. In Germany, activists turned up in front of an H&M with a couch, blankets and other props to demonstrate that they are sitting around and waiting for H&M to fulfil the living wage promise.

 

 
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