Is a Bargain on a Pair of Jeans Worth a Young Woman's Life?

[JBeukema]

Metro Group, the world’s third largest retailer, is linked to horrific sweatshop conditions in Bangladesh.

• Eighteen-year-old woman overworked to death;
  
  
• Seventeen-year-old who collapsed on the shop floor kicked by manager;
  
  
• Beatings and forced 20-hour shifts common;
  
  
• Women asking for their legal right to maternity leave are kicked out of the factory without a cent.

Metro Group Linked to Horrific Sweatshop Conditions in Bangladesh - The National Labor Committee