Even worse now they’re from china
ExactLunch, I don’t get how it can be so difficult to find places in Europe to make clothes, it’s not as if Portugal is the only place with clothing factories!
Yeah surely she could’ve done in the UK tbf. The fact they started straight away with worldwide shipping as well. Hmmmm
Also, one of the things they talk about is fair wages and everyone being paid properly. Tala doesn’t actually pay the factory workers, they’re not their employees. Tala employees are just “really small team lead by grace that do everything”. So basically grace and her pls are being paid good wages.
Would be very interested to know what the people making the clothes earn. Minimum wage in portugal is 700 euro a month
I was reading GoodOnYou's review of eco-brands which includes Tala:
https://directory.goodonyou.eco/brand/tala
It has this para:
TALA's environment rating is 'good'. It uses a high proportion of eco-friendly materials including upcycled materials. There is no evidence it minimises packaging. Its use of eco-friendly materials limits the amount of chemicals, water and wastewater used in production.
Its labour rating is 'it's a start'.
Its final stage of production is undertaken in Portugal, a medium risk country for labour abuse.
There is no evidence it has a Code of Conduct. It traces most of its supply chain including all of the final and second stages of production. There is no evidence it ensures payment of a living wage in its supply chain. It audits some of its suppliers including all of the final stage of production.
Its animal rating is 'good'. It does not use any animal products but it does not state that it's vegan.
TALA is rated 'Good' based on information from our own research.
Last Updated: November 2019
Does this mean that before this final stage of production, other sourcing occurs from elsewhere / does that matter? And so based on this, Tala traces
most of its supply chain but not all? How about the first stages of production? And there is no evidence it ensures payment of a living wage in its supply chain? Jeez. Hm so many questions. And Portugal is
medium risk, why have they not gone for a low risk option if they care so much? I also have the question of why not produce it in the UK? If anyone here understands this stuff better, I'd really love to hear an explanation. In GG, they were pointing out another brand that was also using Portuguese factories to produce sustainable clothing quite similar to Tala so I wonder if it's like in Portugal you have an option to rent these factories (basically a form outsourcing which is a big no no in labour issues) at a lower price than the UK that will pop out the same
tit for different people for them to throw their brands and names on and greenwash.
Grace's executive assistant is on the Tala stories today - literally paid to "make Grace's life easier so she can focus on bigger projects."
