**Fast Fashion’s Dirty Secret: How International Brands Get Away With Abysmal Labor Practices**.
**By Jake Hill**, The Counter, March 15, 2024.
In the ever-competitive world of fast fashion, where retailers churn out new clothes at breakneck speed to keep up with the latest trends, one thing often gets lost in the shuffle: the workers who make these garments. In developing countries around the world, garment workers toil in factories for poverty wages, often in dangerous and exploitative conditions..
This dark side of the fast fashion industry was thrust into the spotlight in 2013, when the Rana Plaza factory in Bangladesh collapsed, killing more than 1,100 workers and injuring thousands more. The tragedy exposed the abysmal working conditions in Bangladesh’s garment industry, which supplies many of the world’s largest fast fashion brands..
In the wake of the Rana Plaza collapse, international brands pledged to improve working conditions in their supply chains. They signed agreements to increase wages, improve safety standards, and allow workers to unionize. But a new report by the Clean Clothes Campaign, an international labor rights organization, reveals that many of these brands have failed to live up to their promises..
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