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By Nick Logan Global News. Posted February 22, pm. Updated March 3, pm. Workers at a factory one hundred kilometres south of Pyongyang have been making Rip Curl surf and snow gear since at least Mr Halik said he was shocked by his discovery and said Rip Curl customers had a right to know where the clothes were made.
Rip Curl has been using North Korea factories to manufacture some of its clothing, including ski jackets, as far back as Oxfam's Dr Szoke called on Rip Curl to follow other Australian companies, including Kmart, Target and Coles, that publish the exact names and locations of their supplier factories. It should start by publishing its policies and a list of the factories where its products are made," Dr Szoke said. Australian firms' garment-sourcing policies came under intense scrutiny in , when hundreds of workers were killed in a Bangladeshi garment making complex, Rana Plaza, that collapsed.
The tragedy caused several leading Australian brands to reform their clothes-sourcing practices. More than 90 per cent of garments sold in Australia are estimated to be sourced from Asia, while a huge proportionate of Asian garment workers are women who are paid minimal or "poverty" wages.
Ms O'Neil said she feared it was not an isolated case of a big-name brand failing to keep track of its supply chain and backed Oxfam's calls for Rip Curl to overhaul its garment sourcing practices. Ms O'Neil said the only reason Rip Curl's Chinese manufacturer would have contracted out the work to North Korea was because workers in that country were even cheaper because they had lower pay rates and worse health and safety conditions than those in China.
Regardless of this, two styles totaling sic units of Rip Curl ski wear did slip through and was shipped to customers. This is people being enslaved we are talking about here. Fortunately the good citizens of the Internet saw through the blizzard of bullshit. Are you kidding? You are just another disgusting company exploiting the poor and destitute of 3rd world Countries. Sure, some people made the point that consumers do very little to know or care where the things they buy come from so why should companies?
From Eastern Europe to Asia, this business is based on low labor costs. Still, as this guy says, responsibility may sit partly with the buyer, but it definitely sits first and foremost with the seller:. If a major company or small one for that matter does not check where their stock is being sourced from, there is something wrong.
So, Rip Curl has a problem. Like a lover who has been cheated on, we customers may find it in our hearts to forgive the company and take it back — but we will never quite trust it in the same way again. But the real problem is much bigger than that. Or worse, the next VW. Just think, if Rip Curl had done the work it has to do now up front, it could have enjoyed such a huge return on it, instead of none at all.
Like so. Like Rip Curl, it also makes ski gear.
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