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Zara Sweatshop Found In Brazil

2011/8/23 9:36:00 41

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The brand Zara is accused of working in more than 30 outsourcing factories in Brazil as "slave like".

In an investigative television program called A Liga, the reporter visited one of the factories where the migrant workers in Bolivia worked in extremely harsh conditions.

Zara is headquartered in Galicia, Spain, and belongs to Inditex group.

Indo textile owner, billionaire Oman Sio Ortega (Amancio Ortega) ranks seventh in the Forbes billionaire list with a net worth of $31 billion.

Zara has been praised by LV fashion director Daniel Piet (Daniel Piette) as "the most innovative and subversive retailer in the world".

It is a vertical integration.

Retailer

About 11 thousand different products are developed each year and control most of the supply chain and product design, production and distribution processes.

About 50% of the garments and accessories sold by Zara are produced in Spain, 26% in other European countries, 24% in Asian and African countries and other relatively low labor forces in the world.

When outsourcing those products with long shelf life, such as basic T- shirts and

Jeans Dress

The company's strategy is to design "try on money", which will eventually become the sample of the supplier, and the supplier usually outsource the specific production to the third party factory.

According to intelligence officials of the Ministry of labor in St Paul, Brazil, one of the Zara clothing outsourcing factories has 33 secret workshops, producing at least 50 thousand garments in the past three months.

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In one workshop, a Bolivia worker told reporters that the price of a pair of jeans from Zara in Brazil was about 200 (126 dollars), and its production cost was only 1.8 (1.14 dollars).

The cost of production is usually divided by all the personnel involved in the production system, for example, the cost of this pair of jeans is divided by 7 people.

The average monthly wage of these workers is about 900 (569 dollars), and no less than 12 hours each time.

The safety conditions found in these factories are also very serious.

The expiration date of a fire extinguisher is 1998.

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In 1975, Oman, West Australia, Ortega founded Zara in Galicia City, La Corun.

In the mid 80s, shortly after the company began its international expansion, Zara soon rose.

With its low-priced products similar to the popular high-end clothing brands, today's Zara has entered the 78 global market with more than 5000 stores and 92 thousand employees.

Amancio Ortega is still a major shareholder of Inditex, but he resigned as chairman of the group last month.

Indy textile CEO Pablo Isla is a successor selected personally during Ortega's charge of the retail giant company. The billionaire also gave 221264 shares of Indah's textile stocks as a "reward" at the market price, which is worth 13 million 700 thousand euros (19 million 800 thousand US dollars). "Pablo"

Latest news: in a statement, a Zara spokesman said that the alleged employment of slave workers by the retailer was "a serious violation of the code of conduct of the Indo textile external producers and workshops". At the same time, the company also said it had immediately ordered all factories that were responsible for the illegal outsourcing of outsourcing to regulate the working conditions of the workers involved.

"Indy Textile Group and Brazil Ministry of labor will strengthen the supervision of the company's production system in all suppliers in Brazil to ensure that such incidents do not happen again."