UK: Fashion workers in “climate of fear”
By Richard Woodard | 14 December 2010
Workers supplying fashion items to some of the leading retail chains in the UK live in a "climate of fear" characterised by poverty wages, violence and denial of basic rights, according to two leading pressure groups.
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