Craig Kielburger Founded WE To Fight Child Labour. Now The WE Brand Promotes Products Made By Children

I worked for them years ago, it was an extremely bad working environment.

If you dared raise concerns about unethical actions nor failed to commit to absurd amounts of overtime you were questioned about your commitment to the cause. It became a joke in the office it was so common.

Part way through my contract one employee group’s pay got bumped slightly because an employee was able to demonstrate that the pay was so low as to violate some legal standard.

Lots of people from the US who were working there as “volunteers” but appeared to have (very low) paying positions in an arrangement that was almost certainly not quite legal, though I’m no lawyer.

At one point they were piloting a project where they sold goods manufactured in the villages where they did development projects at absurd mark ups - which seemed to contravene the philosophy that we were making these villages sustainable and independent. An employee told me he was asked to bring a bag of these goods to Canada and declare it as his own personal items.

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