News Undercover investigation into a SHEIN factory (1 Viewer)

[seoriverse]

A woman was tasked to go undercover as a Chinese worker to find out the truth of what's going on inside one of the textile factory of fast-fashion brand SHEIN.

The work conditions are very bad.

SHEIN's response

What do you think? Is there something the brand could've done to prevent a situation like this? Should people still buy from this brand?
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[lexus]

It's about time they've been exposed for this. And they're not the only fashion brand to do this either. Plenty of fast fashion brands use sweatshops. People just need to be careful where they buy their clothes from if they don't want to support brands that use sweatshop labor

 

[Day]

It's a slippery slope, and I choose to believe that most of this is because there are no safe working conditions in these factories. The factories need to enforce, at their level, safe working conditions, good pay, and give employees PTO as well as fair work hours. However, since demand is so high for the cheap Shein products and they must produce as many products as possible, there is no way Shein to keep up at the pace they've been at for the last 2 years. Like Lexus said, I'm pretty sure all fast-fashion companies are like this. If you don't look at Shein, look at ROMWE, it's the same exact type of fashion for similar super low prices. Should the consumers be blamed for buying these products? Why can't we hold the factory management responsible?

Horrible work conditions in sweatshops will lead people to working under these terrible conditions and terrible wages. They have no other option, and if this is what puts food on their table then so be it. It happened in the US until the muckrakers like Upton Sinclair stepped in to expose the horrible ways employees were being treated through his publication of The Jungle in 1906 which sparked public outcry for better conditions (well, that's like half the story, but I digress). Is such a thing possible in communist China where every move is monitored by the government? I don't think so, and I'm so sorry for the people affected.

I do my part by not buying from Shein, but I'm sure the only difference between Shein & H&M is that Shein is cheaper.

 

[GH0ST]

18 hour days. Meaning you’d only get 8 hours to sleep/shop/spend your “day” without working. What a horrible life to live :(

 

[Nezumi]

This is awful and inhumane. Huge respect for those workers. I hope they’ll fix these insane working conditions. But it’s china so.. I don’t expect much

 

[Day]

This is awful and inhumane. Huge respect for those workers. I hope they’ll fix these insane working conditions. But it’s china so.. I don’t expect much

Did you ever see the videos of people locked in their apartments during the Shanghai Lockdowns when they put metal barriers in front of the front doors of the buildings and denied them food despite the lockdown being extended beyond the initial time frame? That country scares me. They do everything in their power to control their people.

 

[Hoemantic]

This is why I never and will never buy from SHEIN. They also steal from artists and designers ALL THE TIME.

 

[Nezumi]

Did you ever see the videos of people locked in their apartments during the Shanghai Lockdowns when they put metal barriers in front of the front doors of the buildings and denied them food despite the lockdown being extended beyond the initial time frame? That country scares me. They do everything in their power to control their people.

No I haven’t but that sounds awful too.
yeah it scares me too,I will never visit that country.

 

[RandAlThor]

pessimistic me says nothing will change
it hasnt for nike or any of the others.
This is teh exact reason so many businesses choose to build plants in china.