Unpaid factory workers allegedly left notes for customers to find when they were shopping at a Zara chain. Shoppers in Istanbul said they had found pleas for help from unpaid workers on tags inside Zara clothes. Messages were said to have read: “I made this item you are going to buy but I didn’t get paid for it.” According to the Associated Press, workers from an outsourced manufacturer for Zara and other retailers have been going into the stores and leaving the secret messages inside the clothes.The notes are a bid to raise awareness of workers who were left underpaid after a Bravo Tekstil factory that made clothes for Inditex, Zara’s parent company shut down overnight.Workers were left owed three months’ worth of wages and a severance allowance when the factory closed. A petition online created to raise awareness of their plight already has over 19,000 signatures.
