Unpaid garment workers are putting tags on Zara products asking customers to help them
"I made this item you are going to buy, but I didn't get paid for it"
"I made this item you are going to buy, but I didn't get paid for it"
"I made this item you are going to buy, but I didn't get paid for it"
Shoppers at the fashion retailer Zara in Istanbul have found unusual tags on their garments—complaints by Turkish workers who say they have not been paid for the merchandise in the store.
Workers from an outsourced manufacturer for Zara and other retailers have been going into Zara shops and leaving the tags inside clothes.
The tag reads "I made this item you are going to buy, but I didn't get paid for it." It urges shoppers to back their campaign and pressure Zara into paying them.
The tags say the workers were employed by Bravo, which closed down overnight. Workers say the manufacturer owes them three months of pay as well as severance allowance.
Inditex, which owns Zara, did not immediately respond to questions from The Associated Press.
A spokesperson for Inditex - the company that owns Zara - told the Independent that it is working to set up a hardship fund for those left without pay.
"This hardship fund would cover unpaid wages, notice indemnity, unused vacation and severance payments of workers that were employed at the time of the sudden shutdown of their factory in July 2016. We are committed to finding a swift solution for all of those impacted."
A , launched in July 2016 to raise awareness of the labourers' situation, has been signed by 19,000. The workers say that the respective brands have so far only agreed to pay them a quarter of what they are owed.
"In other words, the brands accepted their liability, but they thought we deserve no more than their scraps," a statement on the website says. "We have all laboured for Zara/Inditex, Next, and Mango for years. We made these brands바카라 게임 웹사이트 products with our own hands, earning huge profits for them. We demand now that these brands give us the basic respect to compensate us for our labor."
Zara has previously been sued over its reportedly poor working conditions and accused of both child and slave labor.
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