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Karl-Johan Persson, Chief Executive Officer and President, and all shareholders at H&M, Folksam, Nordea, Storebrand, Swedbank, Alecta and Erling-Persson Family Foundation

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As your current and potential customers we demand that you pay living wages and guarantee fair employment conditions in the whole H&M supply chain - without delay. Doing this would improve the lives of the hundreds of thousands of people who make our clothes every day.

Why is this important?

Five years ago H&M committed to paying living wages to textile workers in their supply chain by 2018. [1] Time is running out and workers are still dependent on wages that are far from sufficient.

Without a living wage, workers may be compelled to work excessive hours or multiple jobs just to make ends meet. [2] Some might put their children to work instead of in school. Hundreds of thousands of workers behind H&M's products are still earning poverty wages and working in poor conditions.

If enough of us, their customer base, come together and speak out about the conditions of their workers, they won’t be able to ignore our demands. Together, we can make H&M seriously worry about their reputation –- and their profits, and push them into action.

Five years ago H&M committed to paying living wages to textile workers in their supply chain by 2018,. [1] but workers are still dependent on wages that are far from sufficient.

References:

“Fair Living Wage – sustainability/our commitments/choose ad reward responsible partners/fair living wage” https://www.racked.com/2018/2/27/17016704/living-wage-clothing-factories wage
https://www.racked.com/2018/2/27/17016704/living-wage-clothing-factories
https://www.isealalliance.org/sites/default/files/resource/2017-12/Dhaka_Living_Wage_Benchmark_Infographic.pdf

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tirtsa

Because fashion can only be something to enjoy, when it brings joy to everyone, both worker and buyer.

Alexandrina

because we're humans and we all deserve to be treated equally

Jessica

workers should be paid living wages

Dorna

Who made my cloth? Stop fashion victim.

Astrid

Buy less with more quality

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Because we es y

Jaclyn

Poor treatment of workers, real live human beings, and our precious, beautiful, traumatized planet for the sake of cash for a bunch of greedy, selfish, hateful fat cats is APPALLING!! I’m so sick of this.

Nikki

I only want to wear clothes that are made under fair conditions. The thought of current working conditions and extremely low pay horrifies me.

Samuel

Those people are making you rich. I don't expect you to make them rich in return, since leading a company and working for one are different things, but I expect you to give them wages high enough. High enough to pay the rents, eat healthy, grant their kids access to proper education, and so on - in short, a life worth living.

Laura

We live in the same world, and the butterfly effects get to be felt everywhere whatever we/they do.

Bruno

For fair living wages!

Tytti

I want to suppprt sustainable and ethical production of clothes. Human rights belong to every one

Salma

Stop slavery!!! All rise to the much awaited ethical capitalist age.

Hilde

Why should people in rich countries buy very cheap clothes? Why should people in poor countries be illtreated and exploited by people in rich countries? Why should very rich

Roberta

Doesn't matter that you doesn't photoshop your models in your newest campaigns if you don't commit to an equal pay for your workers.

Rita

I cannot wear something knowing that it was made buy someone who was paid a few cents an hour and is probably working on terrible and unsafe conditions. I will not buy from fast fashion brands until they chance their policies.

Claudia

Economy and families.

Bea

i wish every one gets a normal salary to live a fine life.

Negrea

We all have the right to have, through work, a dignified life.

roswitha

because it is important, that People have fair emloyment conditions!!

Monika

I would like to contribute to fair trade and making every person's life matter, even when it comes to my purchasing decision. Together we can make a world a better place!

Lena

The missing sustainability and the fact that H&M tramples labor and human rights is the reason why I boycott them for years and won't stop to tell other people to also stop buying there. The fact that H&M is pretending to be better than other big fast fashion labels is even worse. You have to change your morals H&M!

Sandrine

Without being utopist, I truly believe we can both manage to get good products, at a fair price while providing a safe environment to workers with better access to education and better salary. Happy employees is an important part of any company and is good for business. I want to be able to purchase clothing and feel no guilt after it. Right now, I completely stopped buying from HM. The day I can trust this brand again, I will think about becoming again a customer.

Elizabeth

Everyone deserve to be treated with respect and dignity. Pay your worker just as you want your customers to pay you. Where would be without them?

johan

everybody deserves a decent living

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Next week is H&M’s Annual General Assembly, where next years’ plans will be agreed by its shareholders. We are determined to make them understand the sheer importance of their plans for the 850,000 people who live on poverty wages while making H&M’s clothes. For that purpose, three of us will be at the Assembly as delegates. We’ll be there as shareholders, holding €45,000 of H&M’s capital.

We will present a proposal that this year’s dividends should be used to increase these suffering workers’ wages. Our proposal is already on the agenda - so we’ll have a fighting chance. But to increase our chances we need more delegates on our side before the meeting on Tuesday, 7 May. Will you help us put pressure on 6 key shareholders we think could back us up on the day shareholders meet? Please, send them a message so that they know their support matters to thousands of people! If international pressure mounts on them, they will not be able to ignore us.

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850,000 people live on poverty wages while making H&M’s clothes. In your next AGM please support the citizens’ proposal to use this year’s dividends to pay living wages. #TurnAroundHM
You care about others’ well-being. In the next H&M’s AGM it’s in your hands to support the citizens’ proposal to use this year’s dividends to pay living wages to the workers who make H&M’s clothes. I count on you to #TurnAroundHM!
Five years ago H&M agreed to paying living wages to workers making their clothes - but you failed to keep this promise. Fix this in the your next AGM on 7 May. #TurnAroundHM

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