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Low-paid workers are challenging the behaviour of brands and retailers that drive down prices and care nothing for the well-being of those who make what they sell, reports CLAUDIA WEBBE MP

FOR many years, the abysmal situation of garment workers in Leicester has been an open secret.
Exploitation, manipulation, pressure and bullying at work have been rife. Illegally low pay, long hours and awful working conditions have been the norm.
Yet for just as many years, that open secret has been ignored, at both national and local level.
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