Optimer dit sprog - Læs vores guide og scor topkarakter
Uddrag
Opgave 1.
1. Zara er en verdensomspændende familie virksomhed, som består af 1540 detailbutikker, der sælger modetøj. 64 af butikkerne ligger i Storbritannien.
Zara er datterselskab af Inditex. Den blev grundlagt af Amani Ortega i 1975 i byen La Coruna i det nordvestlige Spanien. Ortega er nu Spaniens rigeste mand, og den syvende rigeste mand i verden.
2. AHA er Zaras underleverandør, der står for 90% af Zaras produktion i Brasilien. AHA havde udliciteret fremstillingen af Zaras tøj til en fabrik, der viste sig at være en sweatshop, hvor medarbejderne arbejder under kummerlige forhold til en meget lav løn.
Dette blev opdaget af de brasilianske myndigheder, der nu har lagt sag an mod Zaras moderselskab Inditex.
3. Ineke Zeldenrust fra Clean Clothes Campaign I Amsterdam mener, at det er Zaras ansvar at vide, hvem der laver deres tøj.
Det er dem der skal holde opsyn, med alle dem der er involverede i leverandørkæden, ifølge det etiske regelsæt de har skrevet under på.
Opgave 2 A.
In the article “Zara accused in Brazil sweatshop inquiry” published by Stephen Burgen and Tom Philips on Guardian.co.uk on 18 August 2011, we learn that Zara’s parent company, Inditex, has 52 charges against them, because one of Zara’s sub-contractors in São Paolo Brazil, AHA, were using a factory to produce clothes for Zara.
As it turned out the factory was a sweatshop, The Brazilian prosecutor Giuliana Cassiano Orlandi said, “AHA is a logistical extension of it’s main client, Zara Brazil.
The company is responsible for its employees. Its raison d’être is making clothes and it follows it must know who is producing its garments.”
Companies that have a code of conduct, have a duty to follow an ethical set of rules when they are conducting business.
Otherwise, it can have massive ramifications not only for the company, but also for the workers, investors and everyone else involved in the company.
The workers in these sweatshops are often overworked and underpaid. Renato Bignami who led the investigation said, “They work 16 or even 18 hours a day.
It is extremely exhausting work from Monday to Saturday, sometimes even Sundays depending on demand.” They work in factories that endangers the health and safety of the workers.
The sweatshops are often located in third world countries or in places of great poverty, so many of the workers often have no other choice but to work in the sweatshops, or they might end up homeless or worse.
In the sweatshops they are forced to work under horrid conditions, meaning that they have 12-18-hour workdays without any breaks, no air filtration systems or airconditioning, and they work on outdated or dangerous machines without the necessary safety gear.
In extreme cases these sweatshops are lethal to their workers as we saw in Bangladesh in 2013, when a factory building collapsed and killed more than 1,000 workers and injured approximately 2,500.1 The consumers that purchase clothes made in sweatshops are a part of keeping the sweatshop business alive.
Consumers are constantly craving great bargains and cheap clothes, and the best ways for companies to keep the prizes low are by using sweatshops, because the cost of the garments are cheaper than if they use factories that are up to code.
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