Gap: Report of kids' sweatshop 'deeply disturbing'
When people talk of environmentally friendly production of home goods, this includes not only using production methods that are good for the earth–but for the workers, too. According to today's new reports, GAP Kids clothing was being partially made by enslaved kids in India (who were punished by having oily rags stuffed in their mouth). This should encourage us all to ask how the goods we use are being made. The companies that we work for and purchase from have a responsibility to ask questions of their third world suppliers. And we must encourage them to ask those questions. In the tabletop industry there is nary a mention of environmental impact. What if they were our kids being treated this way?
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Gap: Report of kids' sweatshop 'deeply disturbing' STORY HIGHLIGHTS: - Clothes giant fires contractor at center of child labor allegations - Allegations include children as young as 10 working 16 hours a day for no pay - Boy, 10, tells British newspaper he was sold to a sweatshop by his parents - Gap: Garments allegedly produced by the children will not be sold in stores NEW YORK (CNN) -- Clothing retailer Gap Inc. has fired an Indian company accused of using child labor to make clothes, the company's president said.
"It's deeply, deeply disturbing to all of us," Gap President Marka Hansen said Sunday after watching a video of children at work in a New Delhi, India, sweatshop.