Category - primark

Giant new Primark store faces 7-pence-an-hour protest

agency reporter — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 19:50:11 +0100

Campaigners will protest on Saturday (2 May) over poverty wages for garment workers as Britain’s most popular cheap fashion retailer, Primark, opens a huge new two-floor store in London.

Tesco, Primark cashing in on recession with ‘poverty profits’

staff writers — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 07:56:06 +0100

Leading British retailers Tesco and Primark today are accused of cashing in on the recession with cheap fashion sales by exploiting overseas garment workers.

Poverty pay shames Primark, Tesco and Asda

staff writers — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 08:07:55 +0000

Workers are still paid only 5p an hour for 80-hour weeks producing clothes for leading UK retailers Primark, Tesco and Asda in Bangladesh, says a charity. This is despite the publication a year ago of a report which exposed their 'sweatshops'.