Forever 21 has continued to contract garment factories that regularly violate labor laws.
After a 3 year battle, in december of 2004, forever 21 settleda lawsuit with garment workers. Forever 21 said they would ensure that factories with whom they sub-contracted were in compliance with labor laws. Workers who sew forever 21 clothing still seek help in rectifying the labor law violations and complaints about working conditions. They haven't changed thier ways, they continue to violate labor laws and offer sweat shop jobs. Next time that you go the mall and see cute clothes in forever 21, think about the hands that made it, the cramped work space, the non existent lunch hour, the hours and hours of work and only being paid by the garment, not an hour like they were promised. If you don't think that sewing a dress, shirt of pants is hard, just try doing it in bulk. I've actually visited these sweatshops and they are depressing and dehuminizing. The sad part is that most of the workers are Mexican/Latin American/Asian desent and they don't have documentation. They are however still human beings and deserve to be treated as such.
also....
The Forever 21 corporation plans to construct a diesel polluting warehouse on the 14 acre land where the south central farm once stood. which provided affordable organic food to the community. This warehouse will bring 2500 trucks trips daily exposing te community to cancer producing diesel particulate matter. The governor was the one that took away this land from the south central farmers who worked the 14 acre land and produced affordable food for those that lived in the area who would otherwise have to drive about 3-4 miles to find fresh, organic food. the south central farmers were given a land in bakersfield and they have no choice but to work that land. Volunteers commute to Bakersfield during harvest time and bring the food to the community. This is not fair.... please help this by not shoping in Forever 21.
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Habibi!
You need to put this on a bulletin board on myspace....so you can spread the word....the thing I struggle with is whether boycotting alone is really making a difference? what I immediately think is people would be laid off...and probably that was there only source of income...so maybe you can help me out with this....love you
That is really sad. You would think once they paid out whatever they had to make things better... that they would keep up with things. Terrible, we should find other organizations and probably protest outside Forever 21 stores... that sad. Another huge corporation who is polluting and spreading cancer to its locals is CHEVRON/TEXCO! I believe they are dumping waste in the amazon!
thanks for the update on forever 21.
OH girl..sad to admit but I already knew this...BUT they are not the first and not the last ones to use illegal immigrants.
Try GAP, Bana Republic, The Limites, Express.
You can seriously go into these stores and look at the tags to know where they cam from...and know that the person who made it is not one who even earns half of what the piece of clothing costs.
It's a complicated situation. And just to let you know Forever 21 is growing; they just bought out some Mervyn's stores because they are going bankrupt.
Anyways, don't get mad at the man.
Turn to God and pray. That's really the only solution.
Peace
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