British good trade group boils down heavily in buyers’ “bullying practices”
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UK-based fair trade watchdog Traidcraft Exchange today asked fashion brands and retailers to honour their contracts because they continuing to cancel those or stop payments to suppliers from "poorer countries" including Bangladesh over the Covid-19 outbreak.
In a statement, the group came down heavily particularly on British manner brands and vendors describing their actions as "harassment", which subjected to danger the lives of an incredible number of workers who manufacture items for them.
"The coronavirus pandemic is exposing the bullying practices with which trend retailers and brands handle their suppliers, with knock-on consequences for personnel," Traidcraft Exchange's Senior Individual Sector Plan Advisor Fiona Gooch said.
The group called on Uk fashion brands to "put on public record their commitment to honour contracts" with suppliers to ensure that "workers in poorer countries are paid for work they have already done".
The group said these were noting increasing number of reports that the united kingdom brands were cancelling orders, delaying payment conditions and refusing to pay suppliers even for completed goods in countries just like Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, India and Vietnam.
It said the high-street retailers' retail outlet closure policy to adapt to the brand new reality left "thousands of individuals who make garments and shoes for the united kingdom industry destitute, as factories turn off or lay off personnel".
"The blow reaches smaller suppliers who undertake sub-contracts, to the firms which source them with recycleables, and to migrant workers and informal, home-based staff," the statement read.
The statement also incorporated remarks of several concerned people on the suppliers' end including Bangladesh's Sommilito Garments Sramik Federation President NazmaAkter, who said "brand bosses make big profits -- but nobody is talking about the workers".
"They [workers] need wish, brands must make sure that money is paid to the staff," she said.
RC Kesar of India's Okhla Garment and Textile Cluster of producers said "survival is essential for both retailer and the source chain" and "makes and manufacturers have to work with each other but not at the cost of each other".
Gooch in her concluding remarks said the "brands had a need to come clean and publish a committed action to honour all agreements created before 23 March when the UK went into lockdown".
"They need to reveal what they will do to ensure workers will be paid," she said while Traidcraft Exchange concurrently invited the British people to email 10 of the UK's big makes to ask how they will be giving an answer to the crisis.
The Traidcraft Exchange, even so, said they prepared a proposal for a bailout of garment supply chains through the coronavirus crisis, with immediate, medium and long-term actions.
"And also making the case to use it by brands and vendors, the paper (proposal) sets out how action by the international community could help establish social safeguard floors found in countries where garment development occurs," the group's affirmation said.
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