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The Clean Clothes Campaign network will join forces with partners and allies worldwide to mark for the first time Living Wage Action Day on 25 September 2024. Our main aim is to initiate a global movement dedicated to ensuring all workers receive a wage that meets their basic needs: a living wage!
Twelve years ago, on 11 September 2012, over 250 people were killed in the garment industry’s most deadly factory fire ever. The Ali Enterprises factory in Karachi, Pakistan, burned to the ground with many workers trapped inside. On this day we commemorate all workers who didn’t survive and our thoughts are with all grieving families. Our commitment is to ensure this can never happen again.
Ahead of tomorrow’s Nike annual meeting, CEO John Donahoe is faced with major investors defying his recommendation to ignore worker rights concerns. Instead ever more investors are coming out in force to demand that the sportswear giant fixes its failure to accurately monitor human rights violations in its supply chain. These investors are joining the chorus of rights organisations, unions, consumers, and students who have urged Nike to end its cruel and unnecessary four-year stand off with thousands of vulnerable unpaid workers. Investors claim that these millions in wages still legally owed to workers in Nike’ supply chain pose a sizable risk.
