No 484
Monday, 26th August, 2013
Tel: 96 673 0057
PROTESTS IN SUPPORT OF BREASTFEEDING MUMS
On Friday the 23rd of August, Primark stores across Spain were besieged, as hundreds of people congregated outside their front doors, to protest about their antibreastfeeding policy. The call to action was made after a mother was “thrown out” of a Primark store on the 10th of August, in a shopping centre in Valladolid. The mother was told that she had to stop breast-feeding her baby, as it “could annoy other clients” and that it is company
policy not to allow it. This is not the first time Primark has made the headlines for a scandal like this, in 2012 at their store in Murcia, another mother was expelled and was said to be humiliated for the same reason, at that time, a young mum named Daniella contacted a support group, saying that, “Realising my baby was hungry, I started to breastfeed”, continuing to explain that “the supervisor appeared and ‘invited’ me to leave”. But Daniella carried on feeding, at which point the manager and security guards all appeared, all of whom were women. Continued on Page 2