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World-renowned pop band get made t-shirts for slaveløn

The british pop band the Spice Girls was on Sunday hit by an embarrassing scandal. For the t-shirts that the band themselves have ordered to a charitable even

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World-renowned pop band get made t-shirts for slaveløn

The british pop band the Spice Girls was on Sunday hit by an embarrassing scandal.

For the t-shirts that the band themselves have ordered to a charitable event, turns out now to be produced under slave-like conditions in Bangladesh.

Here, The newspaper The Guardian tracked down both the factory and the workers, who sewed the special t-shirt with hashtagget #IWannaBeASpiceGirl on the front. English: I want to be a Spice Girl.

Conditions in the tøjfabrikkerne in Bangladesh has in the past been under criticism. The wages and working conditions in the current case described, however, as some of the worst the country has experienced. Photo: Manish Swarup/Ritzau Scanpix


the T-shirt was sold to the british charity event Comic Relief for 165 kroner. But it was only 98 dollars, that wandered on to the charity. The rest ended up with the Spice Girls and their supplier.

According to the newspaper was the price for the individual t-shirts, however, not in the vicinity of the profit of 67 dollars. They are produced by employees, who must be content with three dollars an hour for a working week, which in some cases exceed 50 hours.

at the same time they tell employees how they will be verbally assaulted by the governors at the factory, if they are not working fast enough.

the foreign Minister of Bangladesh, Mohammed Shahriar Alam, is co-owner and founder of the company, now under indictment for gross underpayment of wages of the seamstress who made t-shirts to the Spice Girls. Photo: Salvatore Di Nolfi/Ritzau Scanpix


And it is not only the band's stardom and millionindtjening, which makes the matter awkward.

The many t-shirts had in fact intended to put the focus on the discrimination that women experience in the labour market. And it is precisely the women who have sewn the t-shirt to slaveløn.

today, deplores both the Spice Girls and the Comic Relief case deep. According to a spokesperson for the band is it a subcontractor, who without their knowledge have changed the original manufacturer with the cheap factory in Bangladesh.

the Band now calls underleverandøreren to give his profits to charity, just like the Spice Girls promise to pay the money back to the buyers, that will not have the t-shirt anyway.

In 2013 died over 1100 people since tøjfabrikken Rana Plaza in Bangladesh collapsed. The high level of deaths due to both the poor security on the ground and too many employees in the building. Photo: Andrew Biraj/Ritzau Scanpix

See also: Made in Bangladesh: V and DF uses questionable t-shirts
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