Sales of the shirts, which cost 300 euros each and bearing the text ”msgstr “” #Iwannabeaspicegirl” on the chest, to pull in money for the organization Comic Reliefs gender equality and to campaign for greater equality for women.
manufactured the shirts in a factory in Bangladesh, where the employees earn four crowns per hour and work 16 hours a day. It is required of them that they shall sew to 2,000 garments a day, and they are also subjected to harassment. People who are sick are forced to continue working even though they vomit in the workplace, ” says a witness. ”It is common for people to faint,” said one person.
In a statement says the Spice Girls, whose reunion tour kicks off in the spring, that it will fund an investigation of factory working conditions.
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