*[Enwl-eng] keep your promise
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Exhausted, bullied and underpaid – the people making H&M clothes have suffered for too long. In just 2 weeks we’re heading to H&M’s biggest annual meeting. Can you chip in to help print a huge banner demanding H&M keep their fair pay promise? |
“You enter the factory at 8am, but you never know when you will be able to leave. Sometimes we go home at 4am.” – a worker making H&M clothes in Bulgaria.
Exhausted, bullied, paid well below the minimum wage: these are the people making clothes for the H&M stores in our high streets.
So in just 2 weeks, we’re going to H&M’s big annual meeting in Stockholm to deliver our message: H&M, pay people fairly.
We've set up a meeting with Karl-Johan Persson, CEO of H&M right before the meeting. Now we need your help to confront him in the most powerful way possible.
Can you chip in to help cover the costs of designing and printing a booklet to give to H&M’s CEO? It would display moving messages from WeMove members across Europe.
Your donation will also help cover travel and basic accommodation so we can get to the meeting! Can you chip in?
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How many more years do people slaving away in factories making H&M clothes have to wait? Many of them skip meals so their kids have enough to eat. When they’re at work, supervisors control everything and say when they’re allowed to go home. [1]
In 2013, H&M promised they would make sure all workers had fair wages and conditions within the next five years. They haven’t. And worse, they’ve quietly changed the wording on the promise they made. Documents have mysteriously disappeared from their website.
We’ll try to persuade H&M’s CEO face to face. But if that fails we’re hoping to win a shareholder vote that would force his hand. If enough shareholders vote for our resolution, H&M will have to use profits to pay people more. Can you help cover the costs of getting to the meeting?
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We’re working with three activists who own shares in H&M – they’ll spend every minute at the meeting persuading every shareholder to vote for the resolution for fair wages. You have the power to give H&M workers a voice at the meeting in Sweden in just two weeks time.
Already WeMove.EU members have signed a huge petition and sent messages to build the pressure on H&M. If we make a big splash at the meeting, it could turn things around for the hundreds of thousands of people working for pennies, to make the clothes lots of us enjoy.
Can you chip in €8 to help people fight back against poverty wages?
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Thank you,
Olga (Bologna), Jörg (Lübeck), Virginia (Madrid), and the rest of us at WeMove.EU
PS. “A fellow worker was fired after she fainted” – person working in H&M’s Bulgarian factory. Fainting from exhaustion is common in H&M’s factories. People are put on glucose drips to recover before being sent back to work. [2] Let’s end this. I can donate.
References
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https://turnaroundhm.org/static/hm-wages-september2018-full-107815e8a7bc3bd4ffbfeca3426f1dcd.pdf
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