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The Guardian has spoken to more than a dozen workers at the fashion label's factory in Subang, Indonesia, where employees describe being paid one of the lowest minimum wages in Asia and there are claims of impossibly high production targets and sporadically compensated overtime.
The workers' complaints come only a week after labour activists investigating possible abuses at a Chinese factory that makes Ivanka Trump shoes disappeared into police custody.
The activists' group claimed they had uncovered a host of violations at the plant including salaries below China's legal minimum wage, managers verbally abusing workers and "violations of women's rights".
In the Indonesian factory some of the complaints are similar, although the wages paid to employees in Subang are much lower.
[...] PT Buma, a Korean-owned garment company started in Indonesia in 1999, is one of the suppliers of G-III Apparel Group, the wholesale manufacturer for prominent fashion brands including Trump's clothing.
[...] When Alia was told the gist of Ivanka Trump's new book on women in the workplace, she burst out laughing. Her idea of work-life balance, she said, would be if she could see her children more than once a month.
[...] Carry Somers, founder of the non-profit Fashion Revolution said: "Ivanka Trump claims to be the ultimate destination for Women Who Work, but this clearly doesn't extend to the women who work for her in factories around the world."
In March, Indonesia was called out by President Donald Trump for having an unfavourable trade balance with the US. The president took issue with Indonesia's $13bn surplus last year and vowed to penalise "cheating foreign importers".
Bad pay, unrealistic production requirements, unpaid overtime and verbal abuse are among the complaints of the workers. Ivanka has factories in China, and Indonesia where wages are even lower. Does textile production really have to be like this? Can we really not afford buying clothes made in humane conditions?
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Lagg on Saturday June 17 2017, @08:20PM
Do you realize this piece of shit of a president single handedly made this politically charged climate last far longer than it should have by turning everything into a rally so he can take a picture and cum all over it later when he's taking his 0300 commute. I don't like it, but SN is certainly not going to be damaged by a bunch of whores to the state acting like fair criticism of the guy and his family is "anti-Trump". Why the fuck should anyone be "pro-President" of any kind? You guys really like Trump's platform of hatred and piss-dripping terror so much that you're willing to be just as much a little submissive bitch as he is? Have some political independence for fucks sake.
Also: If there is any agenda whatsoever to speak of with the editors - they still post the highest commented summaries when they post these. The AC trump squad only further improves the count by getting people like me to participate that wouldn't otherwise comment at all. Is it the editors not being honest with their bias? Is it? If they even care about that, I sure as hell wouldn't tell them to stop if it's so easy to spin up activity. Not that I'll ever understand why this is bias of any sort when sweatshop abuse has been covered both on slashdot and soylent repeatedly.
Oh and for what it's worth even though I cringe heavily when I see these summaries, it's mostly because I know what the comments will look like. That's all.
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