Things like this make me laugh...

AARRRGH

Do they really give a ****, or do they just need the attention...?

'Sweatshop' blow to wristband campaign

THE 'Make Poverty History' campaign fronted by Bob Geldof suffered a major blow yesterday after it was revealed that white wristbands it has sold were made in Chinese factories accused of using forced labour.

The fashionable white wristbands were made for a coalition of charities as the symbol of the campaign to end extreme poverty.

Oxfam, Christian Aid and Cafod are amongst the charities selling the wristbands.

But it emerged yesterday that reports into two factories manufacturing the bands found the working conditions represented a violation of both Chinese law and the standards set by the Ethical Trading Initiative, which promotes better international working practices.

One of the factories, Tat Shing Rubber Manufacturing Company in Shenzen, China, found employees were working a seven-day week for below the minimum wage, with no annual leave, no right to freedom of association, poor health and safety provisions

Another report, on the Fuzhou Xing Chun Trade Company, found workers were paid less than minimum wage with staff having pay deducted for disciplinary reasons. (© Independent News Service)

Thumper Long

feckin' attention seeking tree huggers, its always the same they are more interested in helping people 5000 miles away and the poor unfortunates on their own door step are just forgotten, and not to start a racism debate but you have these foreign nationals that are nothing to us being put up in hotels and B&B's and their are our own sleeping in doorways and laneways, without food or shelter, would they be better off going abroad to seek asylum!!!!!

AARRRGH

I know! I seriously think the reason Bob Geldof does this **** is only because he is an attention seeker. If he really cared, as you say, he would give some of his hundreds of millions to sort out these problems.

danniemcq

Yeah cause the Nike "charity" bracelets are much better, come on Nike is one of the biggest abusers of child labour and general ill-treatment of their workers

stevenmu

Heh, it's like that right-wing german newspaper that was complaining about all the german jobs being sent to cheaper european countries, it turned out the paper was printed in Poland

Eoin

dublindude wrote:

I know! I seriously think the reason Bob Geldof does this **** is only because he is an attention seeker. If he really cared, as you say, he would give some of his hundreds of millions to sort out these problems.

He actually threw a bit of a strop recently saying that he was sick of being known as a Mother Theresa type, and wanted to be known for being a musician instead. Shame that he wasn't a particularly good musician then.

danniemcq

at least he isn't as bad a bozo (sorry bono)

Eoin

danniemcq wrote:

at least he isn't as bad a bozo (sorry bono)

Very true, but neither of them seem to do much for Irish charities - possibly because they won't get the same publicity

Blisterman

To be honest, most of the Irish homeless are alcoholics and smackheads.
The guys doing something good for people, and you're critisising him. I don't understand that.