*[Enwl-eng] keep your promise

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      Exhausted, bullied and underpaid – the people making H&M clothes have 
suffered for too long. In just 2 weeks we’re heading to H&M’s biggest annual 
meeting. Can you chip in to help print a huge banner demanding H&M keep 
their fair pay promise?

      I can donate
“You enter the factory at 8am, but you never know when you will be able to 
leave. Sometimes we go home at 4am.” – a worker making H&M clothes in 
Bulgaria.

Exhausted, bullied, paid well below the minimum wage: these are the people 
making clothes for the H&M stores in our high streets.

So in just 2 weeks, we’re going to H&M’s big annual meeting in Stockholm to 
deliver our message: H&M, pay people fairly.

We've set up a meeting with Karl-Johan Persson, CEO of H&M right before the 
meeting. Now we need your help to confront him in the most powerful way 
possible.

Can you chip in to help cover the costs of designing and printing a booklet 
to give to H&M’s CEO? It would display moving messages from WeMove members 
across Europe.

Your donation will also help cover travel and basic accommodation so we can 
get to the meeting! Can you chip in?

            I can donate

            I cannot donate


How many more years do people slaving away in factories making H&M clothes 
have to wait? Many of them skip meals so their kids have enough to eat. When 
they’re at work, supervisors control everything and say when they’re allowed 
to go home. [1]

In 2013, H&M promised they would make sure all workers had fair wages and 
conditions within the next five years. They haven’t. And worse, they’ve 
quietly changed the wording on the promise they made. Documents have 
mysteriously disappeared from their website.

We’ll try to persuade H&M’s CEO face to face. But if that fails we’re hoping 
to win a shareholder vote that would force his hand. If enough shareholders 
vote for our resolution, H&M will have to use profits to pay people more. 
Can you help cover the costs of getting to the meeting?

            I can donate

            I cannot donate


We’re working with three activists who own shares in H&M – they’ll spend 
every minute at the meeting persuading every shareholder to vote for the 
resolution for fair wages. You have the power to give H&M workers a voice at 
the meeting in Sweden in just two weeks time.

Already WeMove.EU members have signed a huge petition and sent messages to 
build the pressure on H&M. If we make a big splash at the meeting, it could 
turn things around for the hundreds of thousands of people working for 
pennies, to make the clothes lots of us enjoy.

Can you chip in €8 to help people fight back against poverty wages?

            I can donate

            I cannot donate


Thank you,

Olga (Bologna), Jörg (Lübeck), Virginia (Madrid), and the rest of us at 
WeMove.EU

PS. “A fellow worker was fired after she fainted” – person working in H&M’s 
Bulgarian factory. Fainting from exhaustion is common in H&M’s factories. 
People are put on glucose drips to recover before being sent back to work. 
[2] Let’s end this. I can donate.



References
[1, 2] 
https://turnaroundhm.org/static/hm-wages-september2018-full-107815e8a7bc3bd4ffbfeca3426f1dcd.pdf



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sustainability and citizen-led democracy. We are people from all walks of 
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