If you operate in an industry littered with accusations and actual accounts of the women workers who make your products being exploited financially and sexually, why in the world would you make such ads?

I don’t have a clue where Ecko jeans are made, but I highly doubt that the skimpily clad women featured in these videos actually make the jeans. I’ve spent months talking with women garment workers around the world and I’m utterly insulted by these ads. In Bangladesh, Arifa, a single mother, works hard so she doesn’t have to ship another son off to Saudi Arabia to work. In Cambodia Nari and Ai support 6 and 7 family members a piece on their paychecks. In China Zhu Chun tries to earn enough so her son can go to college.

These and other cases of slavery reported by the Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW) are one part of a larger context of labor rights abuses occurring in agriculture in the U.S.  You can click here for lots of information about similar cases and CIW's anti-slavery campaign. 

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The Indepedent (UK)

BBC News

Washington Post

Then we have the pleasantly-named “labor relations” law firms. Take Jackson Lewis,
for example, a 50-year old firm specializing in “preventive strategies
for the workplace.”  These attorneys use their understanding of the law
to help employers get out of allegations about tricky issues like “reductions in force,” and the “complex laws governing hours of work and payment of wages.”
Now, maybe payment of wages is more complicated than I thought, but the
fact that this firm continuously stresses their dedication to
protecting “management rights” makes me doubt that they are
doing anything other than trying to find legal justification to cheat
workers out of what they deserve.