{"id":133796,"date":"2024-09-18T09:15:25","date_gmt":"2024-09-18T06:15:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/how-migrant-workers-suffered-to-craft-the-made-in-italy-luxury-label\/"},"modified":"2024-09-18T09:15:25","modified_gmt":"2024-09-18T06:15:25","slug":"how-migrant-workers-suffered-to-craft-the-made-in-italy-luxury-label","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/news\/how-migrant-workers-suffered-to-craft-the-made-in-italy-luxury-label\/","title":{"rendered":"How migrant workers suffered to craft the \u2018Made in Italy\u2019 luxury label"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mp_wrapper\">\n  <div class=\"mepr-unauthorized-message\">\n    <p>You are unauthorized to view this page.<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"mepr-login-form-wrap\">\n            \n<div class=\"mp_wrapper mp_login_form\">\n                  <!-- mp-login-form-start -->     <form name=\"mepr_loginform\" id=\"mepr_loginform\" class=\"mepr-form\" action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/\" method=\"post\" data-trp-original-action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/\">\n            <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_username\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n                              <label for=\"user_login\">Username<\/label>\n        <\/div>\n        <input type=\"text\" name=\"log\" id=\"user_login\" value=\"\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_password\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n          <label for=\"user_pass\">Password<\/label>\n          <div class=\"mp-hide-pw\">\n            <input type=\"password\" name=\"pwd\" id=\"user_pass\" value=\"\" \/>\n            <button type=\"button\" class=\"button mp-hide-pw hide-if-no-js\" data-toggle=\"0\" aria-label=\"Show password\">\n              <span class=\"dashicons dashicons-visibility\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n            <\/button>\n          <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n            <div>\n        <label><input name=\"rememberme\" type=\"checkbox\" id=\"rememberme\" value=\"forever\" \/> Remember Me<\/label>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n      <div class=\"submit\">\n        <input type=\"submit\" name=\"wp-submit\" id=\"wp-submit\" class=\"button-primary mepr-share-button\" value=\"Log In\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"redirect_to\" value=\"\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133796\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_process_login_form\" value=\"true\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_is_login_page\" value=\"false\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n    <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"trp-form-language\" value=\"en\"\/><\/form>\n    <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n    <div class=\"mepr-login-actions\">\n        <a\n          href=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/?action=forgot_password\"\n          title=\"Click here to reset your password\"\n        >\n          Forgot Password        <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n\n      \n    <!-- mp-login-form-end --> \n  <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"smart_content_wrapper\">\n<p>&#8220;Made in Italy: shame in Italy,&#8221; a handful of migrant labourers who had travelled from Italy&#8217;s famed leatherware region Tuscany chanted last week in Geneva outside the flagship store of luxury accessory maker Montblanc, holding placards with the slogan.<\/p>\n<p>Standing about three kilometers from where Montblanc&#8217;s $76 billion parent Richemont (CFR.S), opens new tab was meeting shareholders, the workers &#8211; flanked by more than a dozen Italian and Swiss union officials &#8211; accused the pen and watches maker of dropping its supplier Z Production last year because of rising costs.<\/p>\n<p>The Chinese-owned contractor, based in Tuscany, had improved its working conditions in October 2022 after years of irregular contracts and long shifts, workers and union officials told Reuters. &#8220;Montblanc ended the contract because we wanted to work eight hours a day, five days a week as legal workers,&#8221; said 23-year-old Zain Ali, from Pakistan. He worked for Z Production for two and a half years, applying metal Montblanc logos to leather accessories: &#8220;They just wanted slaves.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Z Production did not respond to a request for comment for this story. Montblanc said, in a statement to Reuters, it had decided to terminate Z Production&#8217;s contract in early 2023 because its audits showed the contractor had failed to meet its standards as outlined in Richemont&#8217;s code of conduct for suppliers. This year, investigations by prosecutors exposed sweatshop-like conditions at 16 workshops near Italy&#8217;s fashion capital Milan that manufactured products for luxury brands Dior, Giorgio Armani and Alviero Martini, according to court documents reviewed by Reuters.<\/p>\n<p>Reuters spoke to seven luxury supply chain workers and three union leaders, as well as several non-profit organisations, local officials and industry players, who said that such harsh working conditions were also a feature of the luxury supply chain in Tuscany. Z Production and other workshops employed undocumented migrants there with no prior experience in leather-making to produce luxury products for Montblanc and other high-end brands, the sources said, indicating supply chain problems extend beyond Milan.<\/p>\n<p>Alessandro Lessi, 53, who was employed at Z Production as delivery man until 2022, said that, as the only Italian in the large workshop, he had a regular contract but migrant labourers there worked long hours. &#8220;I left at 6 PM, but everyone else stayed on,&#8221; he told Reuters, saying that most of the workers there were either from China, Pakistan or Bangladesh as the company sought to cut costs. &#8220;It&#8217;s very common here in Tuscany. It&#8217;s the big brands that impose the prices on contractors&#8221;. A Milan court has placed Alviero Martini Spa, Armani&#8217;s industrial arm Giorgio Armani Operations, and Italy&#8217;s Manufactures Dior into judicial administration respectively in January, April and June for a period of one year.<\/p>\n<p>After that, judges will verify if the companies have addressed shortcomings and taken steps to prevent a repeat of the labour problems, according to the court documents and judicial sources. Speaking in July, Dior&#8217;s parent LVMH said it planned to strengthen audits and checks of the supply chain and that Dior would take more direct control of its production. In April, the Armani group said it had &#8220;always had control and prevention measures in place to minimise abuses in the supply chain.&#8221; Alviero Martini said this month it was unaware of the unauthorised subcontracting and of the exploitation of workers. Italian prosecutors are now investigating the supply chains of around a dozen more fashion brands, a person familiar with the matter told Reuters in June without identifying the brands because of the case is still ongoing.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/europe\/how-migrant-workers-suffered-craft-made-italy-luxury-label-2024-09-18\/\">Read more &gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/europe\/how-migrant-workers-suffered-craft-made-italy-luxury-label-2024-09-18\/\">Reuters<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/vaufien\/how-migrant-workers-suffered-to-craft-the-made-in-italy-luxury-label\/\">How migrant workers suffered to craft the \u2018Made in Italy\u2019 luxury label<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\">Vastuullisuusuutiset.fi<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1552,16138,16139,606,607,608],"class_list":["post-133796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-italy","tag-luxury-label","tag-migrant-workers","tag-vau_viikkokatsaus","tag-vauen","tag-vaufien"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133796\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}