Labour Behind The Label

Kalpona Akter and Babul Akhter from LBL partner organisation, Bangladesh Workers Solidarity Centre, are due to appear in court later this month after a judge ruled their cases should be processed under a speedy trial system. Labour Behind the Label believes there is strong evidence that these cases have been fabricated and is calling on Walmart, a major buyer from one of the factories involved, to get the charges against them dropped.

Something different has swept through the UK high street.  Whereas ten years ago, style-conscious teenagers would never be seen, like, dead in a bargain clothes shop, today the Saturday afternoon high street is awash with Primark bags and their proud owners boasting the bargains they have found. That anyone would admit to buying clothes from a supermarket would have been inconceivable until recent years, but ask someone at a party now where their nice new jeans are from, and they may well have been picked up that afternoon along with the baked beans and cornflakes in Asda.  This report aims to set out questions that the consumer can ask of the retailers that are becoming ever more a key part of the consumer horizon.