The Gap admits unfair working conditions? I am so confused.
While documenting a wide variety of work-force violations at the mostly developing-country plants that make Gap clothing, the report paints a bleaker picture of the hundreds of factories that are vying to win Gap contracts. Of these, the report said, about 90% fail the retailer’s initial evaluation.
The Gap report represents a dramatic change in strategy for a retailer that has long been on the defensive about working conditions at the factories that make its clothing. It may also represent a deft strategic move. At the same time that the report exonerates the majority of factories making Gap clothes, its frank discussion of violations at a minority of plants already is winning praise from some of the retailer’s most vociferous critics.
justinª