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Secret #1:

Gucci's parent PPR is involved in labor rights violations around the world.

Reports from trade unions and NGOs from Eastern Europe and all across Asia confirm PPR's practice of producing goods in workplaces that violate local and international labor laws, leading to a downward spiral in living standards for workers. Violations that have been recorded include: unpaid overtime, unsafe working conditions, union repression and even child labor.
For an overview please read : Around the world with PPR

While manufacturers routinely flaunt local and international labor law, the global giants that create the conditions-and could stop them-turn a blind eye. Like other retailers, the company denies responsibility for the sweatshops it creates, claiming it has no control over the business practices of the subcontractors it uses.

Secret #2:

PPR certainly is responsible for the conditions in it's workplaces.

PPR chooses which apparel factories will produce its clothing - and which not - and what price it will pay for the work. By the way: a PPR spokesman declared that PPR was about to close some factories after information on the bad working conditions came out, leaving the workers with no income.

What should Gucci and PPR do:

The Clean Clothes Campaign believes that a structural approach to improving labor conditions should be pursued. The Clean Clothes Campaign feels that producers and companies have an important role to play in achieving this.

• The Clean Clothes Campaign calls upon Gucci to speak out against the abusive conditions in PPR's facilities

• the Clean Clothes Campaign wants GUCCI to take it's responsibilities seriously and to press PPR to improve working conditions in its facilities.

• The Clean Clothes Campaign requests PPR to adopt a good code of conduct in full accordance with international standards which includes provisions for code compliance.

  What they should not do:

• we don't want PPR to cut and run, after being confronted with abusive working conditions. Simply cutting contracts with the facilities in question is no solution. Moving to another place where same practices will occur, while leaving workers with no income is not socially responsible corporate behaviour.

Take action!

• Mail this message to Gucci's Domenico de Sole, President & Chief Executive.
• Download the Gucci postcard in pdf format, spread the news
• Order the postcards (above 100 or more, call or mail the clean clothes campaign
  0031-(0)20-4122785
• Make a link to this page.