An American Nightmare
Ralph Lauren Polo may market the “American Dream” to consumers but the company is ignoring a real-life nightmare for American workers. Ralph Lauren’s U.S. trucking carrier, Toll Group, is importing third-world working conditions. American truck drivers at Toll are denied sanitary indoor bathrooms and a sheltered rest area.
Rene Perez, one of the truck drivers responsible for getting the latest Ralph Lauren styles to store shelves, explains,
“The port-a-potties stink so bad that most of us just hold it in for hours at a time, on top of that we have no place to wash our hands if we do have to use the outhouses.”
Shortly after these U.S. workers united to protest the filthy, stench-ridden unsanitary outhouses that lacked running water, 26 were told their services were no longer needed.
America’s Real Values
In the 90’s Polo’s discerning consumers helped stop Ralph Lauren from using sweatshop labor. Today U.S. workers are engaging and educating shoppers to make it clear their values still hold true: It isn’t fashionable to abuse the American workers who transport your clothes from our shores to retail stores.