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Release Date    2013.06.26
Air Date        2013.06.24
Genre           Documentary / Investigative

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Australians love a bargain, but what's the real cost of cheap
clothes from the sweat shops in Bangladesh? On 24th April this year
more than a thousand people were killed when an eight storey
building collapsed in the heart of Bangladesh's capital, Dhaka.

The collapse of Rana Plaza turned the world's attention to the
shocking conditions workers in the country's clothing industry are
forced to endure. In recent years, Australian companies have flooded
into Bangladesh to take advantage of lax labour laws and the lowest
wages in the world, paid to the predominantly young, female workers
in the factories.

Next on Four Corners reporter Sarah Ferguson sets out to find where
the clothes we see in our major retail outlets are made. What
efforts do Australian companies make to ensure the factories are
safe and their workers earn a living wage? Australian retailers
blocked our enquiries at every turn, refusing access to factories
wherever we went. Working backwards from some of our best known
retail outlets, Four Corners goes factory to factory showing workers
and union organisers Australian labels until the factories are
found. There the workers describe a miserable existence, long hours,
pitiful pay and abuse if deadlines aren't met. In some of the worst
cases there is even violence and threats of jail:

"Workers are being arrested, beaten, tortured ... you know, sexual
harassment, just on and on and on. This was a miserable sweatshop."

Why would Australian retailers allow their brands to be associated
with such activities? In Bangladesh, it's all about price. Local
factory owners claim they are squeezed so hard by retailers they
simply can't afford to ensure their factories safe. The explanation
is simple according to one European buyer:

"It's price, price, price, price, price and profit".

http://www.abc.net.au/4corners/stories/2013/06/25/3785918.htm

Sarah Ferguson brings the quality goods as usual.

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