The True Cost Page #7

but over a year since I saw him.

This is my mom,

a year ago he has not seen.

I talk to her on the phone too, but do not see often.

The struggle of the workers of Bangladesh has no limits.

Each day we woke up early in the morning,

we go to the factory, and we work very hard all day.

And we do all the hard work clothes.

And that's what people use.

People have no idea how hard it is for us to do the laundry.

Only buy and use it.

I think these clothes are produced with our blood.

Many textile workers die in separate accidents.

About a year ago, there was a cave in Rana Plaza.

Many workers died there.

It is very painful for us.

I do not want anyone seen anything,

to occur with our blood.

We want better working conditions, so that all are aware.

I do not want another owner as Rana Square

run that risk and force workers

to work in such conditions.

Lest they die more workers as well.

For there is no more mothers who lost their children as well.

I do not want this, I want that the owners are a little more aware

and take care of us.

You know? Really hit profits

their need to work, to use as slaves.

And I'm not saying that ... We have to give them work,

but they must be treated with the same respect

with which we treat our children, our friends.

They are not different from us.

Livia Firth has called for major changes

in the fashion industry.

She made headlines for starting something

called "The Challenge of Green Carpet"

urging famous and great designers

to participate in more fashion conscious ways.

Sustainability runs a consultancy called Eco Age,

and he has been invited to speak at a conference

about the future of fashion.

If there fast fashion,

no need to have a summit in Copenhagen

to try to solve the disaster of the destruction of the environment,

destruction of social justice, which has been caused

in the last 15 or 20 years of its existence.

Fast Fashion wants to produce fast,

so the textile worker has to produce faster and cheaper.

So the textile worker is the only point of the supply chain

where margins are compressed.

And we have these huge companies

They are going to the factory in Bangladesh,

They make an order for 1.5 million jeans

30 cents each, 50 cents each ...

How can it be ethical?

I do not know.

But also, from the point of view of the consumer,

Is it really democratic buy a shirt for $ 5

or pay $ 20 for their jeans?

Or are we kidding?

Because they are making us believe that we are rich or wealthy

because we can buy many things.

But we actually are getting poorer.

And the only person who is getting richer

It is the brand owner of Fast Fashion.

So that angers me a little.

You spoke of a commitment

promise to try to basic subsistence wages.

What does that mean?

How fair subsistence wages defined in Bangladesh?

You know? What does that mean?

"Having a pilot project in three factories"

and by 2018, 15% of their factories are going to have that?

That is not enough. it is not.

For us it is very clear that what is a living wage,

It is something that workers should say,

and that is incorporated into our way of working.

How much is it?

And we are not who should say how much,

but we do assessments all the time.

How much is it?

And to ensure that covers the basic needs of workers.

I can show it later.

H & M has dominated the fast fashion model,

becoming the second largest clothing company in history.

With annual revenues of over $ 18 billion dollars,

Now they are one of the largest producers of clothes

in Bangladesh and Cambodia.

Unfortunately, like other large retailers who asked,

They refused to grant an interview for this film.

PHNOM PENH, CAMBODIA

In Cambodia, the garment workers are tired.

They recently took the streets

to demand a minimum wage increase in the country.

To continue the protests were met with violent repression,

as police opened fire with live ammunition.

A woman died and several people were injured

in clashes between workers of textile mills

and riot police in Cambodia.

For two days, Cambodia was a battleground.

The city of Phnom Penh.

They brought to the police, paratroopers

as if there were a war in the streets of Phnom Penh.

Why? Because workers in the textile industry

still required

a minimum wage of at least $ 160.

The government violently repressed us, and as a result

five workers, 23 died were arrested,

and more than 40 wounded.

And actually we are not asking for much money.

We just want a proper wage to a decent life with dignity.

But the government does not care how poor we are

or how much suffering we endured.

They do not care workers at all.

So we continue to demand $ 160

a monthly minimum wage.

Today is the funeral of a factory worker.

He was beaten to death.

She had suffered greatly before dying this morning.

And he had not done anything wrong.

He, among his colleagues,

I wanted to have better living conditions.

Continue their fight

for all Cambodian workers

have decent living conditions.

Thank you sir.

The Cambodian government, like other developing countries,

desperately you need the business they bring multinational retailers.

By the constant threat of these brands

on the relocation of production to other low-cost countries,

the government keeps down wages,

systematically avoiding compliance with local labor laws.

But how are you officially marks do not employ workers,

or they own any factories where they produce,

they can make huge profits,

while remaining free of responsibility

the effects of precarious employment, Disaster factories,

and continued violent treatment of workers.

The whole system begins to seem

as a perfectly designed nightmare

for workers trapped inside.

They can not deceive, and exploit our human resources,

exploit our workers.

Workers continue rising.

I ask the international brands

to turn this fight in dollars,

in pounds, euros.

It translates into human capital.

It translates in social responsibility

of these large companies,

It translates into economic justice.

When everything is concentrated on making profits

for large companies,

we see that human rights,

the environment, labor rights are completely lost.

We see that workers are increasingly exploited

because it brings down the price lower all increasing,

simply to satisfy this urge to accumulate capital.

And that is deeply problematic,

because it leads to massive impoverishment

hundreds of millions of people worldwide.

If you write to any of these companies,

they send its Code of Conduct.

And it's beautiful, and says: "Yes, we take responsibility

conditions under which our product is made,

the product you buy.

In all the factories where we produce,

we require them to abide by minimum wage laws,

all laws of the country,

respect women and not hire children,

no forced labor,

no excessive overtime, "all those things.

But when we introduced a bill in Congress a few years ago,

or we work with people to do it,

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