Please help us note found in Christmas cards

[Ozfactor]

The article also mentions the prisoners are forced to sew tags on fashion items, including high end fashion brands, as well as packaging the Christmas cards .
The work was all meant to be done in a factory by factory workers, not in a prison by prisoners . 
I doubt anything will come of it, authorities have 'investigated' and found no evidence of forced labour of prisoners .

 

https://news.sky.com/story/tesco-halts-roll-out-of-charity-christmas-cards-after-girl-6-finds-note-from-chinese-inmates-11892913

A message by foreign prisoners in China pleading for help has been found in a Tesco charity card by a six-year-old girl.

 

The message, in capital letters, read: "We are foreign prisoners in Shanghai Qingpu prison China.

"Forced to work against our will. Please help us and notify human rights organisation."

 

[MissJatti]

Tesco are now employing FOREIGN PRISONERS IN CHINA for free.

Tesco you are a disgrace in the whole wide world. You even treat UK workers like shid, with little pay too.

Edited December 22, 2019 by MissJatti

[psyche101]

The investigation revealed nothing.

All that talk, but the only actual news was

 

Primark said it regularly inspected its factories and "no prison or other forced labour of any kind was found during these inspections".

 

So much for the note. Nobody knows who wrote it and it revealed nothing. What's the point of the story other than to get Tesco noticed at a prominent time of year.

[ExpandMyMind]

1 hour ago, MissJatti said:

Tesco are now employing FOREIGN PRISONERS IN CHINA for free.

Tesco you are a disgrace in the whole wide world. You even treat UK workers like shid, with little pay too.

Not to defend a mega-corporation partially responsible for the closure of numerous businesses and the decline of traditional communties or anything, but they have halted production from that factory.

46 minutes ago, psyche101 said:

The investigation revealed nothing.

All that talk, but the only actual news was

 

Primark said it regularly inspected its factories and "no prison or other forced labour of any kind was found during these inspections".

 

So much for the note. Nobody knows who wrote it and it revealed nothing. What's the point of the story other than to get Tesco noticed at a prominent time of year.

Oh, well. Better pack it up and move on then. It's not like these practices could ever be hidden or anything or that China has the worst human rights record on the planet, or even that Primark and other UK retailers have a documented history of turning a blind eye to slave and child labour and horrendous working conditions in the production of their products.

And, yes, I'm sure that even the six-year-old girl who found the note was in on this conspiracy to provide Tesco with free marketing in the form of a terrible scandal. It all just makes so much sense now.

[psyche101]

22 hours ago, ExpandMyMind said:

Not to defend a mega-corporation partially responsible for the closure of numerous businesses and the decline of traditional communties or anything, but they have halted production from that factory.

I didn't see that it noted the owner of the company was called into question. Is the factory replaced with a better investigated source, or did they just move people to another shed? Nothing was allegedly found at the source of the note, so are the workers just doing the same thing someplace else? 

Information seems ambiguous.

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Oh, well. Better pack it up and move on then. It's not like these practices could ever be hidden or anything or that China has the worst human rights record on the planet, or even that Primark and other UK retailers have a documented history of turning a blind eye to slave and child labour and horrendous working conditions in the production of their products.

Isn't that basically what they have done?

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And, yes, I'm sure that even the six-year-old girl who found the note was in on this conspiracy to provide Tesco with free marketing in the form of a terrible scandal. It all just makes so much sense now.

Why would it matter who found the note?

Edited December 23, 2019 by psyche101

[jypsijemini]

Every other prisoner: "You're crying to human rights about having to sew tags on clothing? Mate, do you have any idea how hard it is to do so much as pick up a bar of soap in prison?! Everyone knows this is what happens in prison and no one's batting an eyelid about it."