Earth First! Action Update
Archive of the Earth First! Action Update – the newsletter of the UK EF! network 1991-2012
EFAU 70 - August 2000Back to list of articles in this issue

Prison Labour

Increasingly companies are using a captive labour force, paying as little as £2.50 per week. CAGE are trying to put together a list of companies exploiting prison labour, but the identity of companies is protected by "commercial confidentiality". Information about this would be much appreciated.

So far we know of The Ecologist, Tysons (a Nottingham based electrical firm), Polymer Reprocessors Ltd, Virgin Atlantic Airways, Harrods, Jewsons, Red or Dead, Land Rover and Poplar Plastics.