Clean Clothes Campaign

Solidarity with striking garment workers at Sumithra Hasalaka, Sri Lanka!https://cleanclothes.org/news/2024/solidarity-with-striking-garment-workers-at-sumithra-hasalakaa year agoAround 300 members of the Free Trade Zones & General Services Employees Union (FTZ & GSEU) at the Sumithra Hasalaka factory in Sri Lanka, have been out on strike since Saturday 10th February 2024.

Cambodian garment workers: never paid enough to escape the debthttps://cleanclothes.org/blog/never-paid-enough-to-escape-the-debta year agoThe new minimum wage for garment workers in Cambodia is set at 204 USD per month, despite trade unions’ demand for a much bigger increase. The new minimum wage is a huge disappointment for the 700,000 workers in the Cambodian garment and footwear sector, who are increasingly struggling to make ends meet.

Union activists in Bangladesh beaten and threatened for exercising their right to organisehttps://cleanclothes.org/news/2024/union-activists-in-bangladesh-beaten-and-threatened-for-exercising-their-right-to-organisea year agoLast week, on 15 February 2024, union organisers and activists of the Akota Garment Worker Federation (AGWF) in Bangladesh were beaten, threatened, and subsequently hospitalised. The attack followed an attempt by workers of the Libas Textiles factory in Gazipur, to establish a factory union that would join the AGWF.

Victory for newly unionised garment workers in Nike factory, Sri Lankahttps://cleanclothes.org/news/2024/victory-for-newly-unionised-garment-workers-in-nike-factorya year agoAfter months of struggle and uncertainty, 18 workers of a Nike sock factory in Sri Lanka, who were suspended for forming a branch union, are now back at their jobs with the branch union in place. This victory shows that union busting has no place in garment supply chains and that workers standing together and international solidarity can make a real difference.

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Bangladesh Crackdown 2024https://cleanclothes.org/campaigns/crackdown-2024a month ago<strong>Facing jail for demanding dignified pay.</strong>

Working conditions for Turkey's textile workers worsen under the pandemichttps://cleanclothes.org/news/2021/working-conditions-for-turkeys-textile-workers-worsen-under-the-pandemic2 years agoFrom the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, Clean Clothes Campaign Turkey conducted research to identify conditions workers are facing in the textile industry. The study found workers experienced several risk and violations that emerged with COVID-19, such as: unpaid leave, short-time working allowance, and compulsory use of annual leaves. There were also issues regarding health and safety measures, and whether distancing, the use of masks, and hygiene rules were followed.

Fashion brands fail to address pandemic-era wage theft in Cambodiahttps://cleanclothes.org/news/2021/fashion-brands-fail-to-address-pandemic-era-wage-theft-in-cambodia4 years agoCambodian garment workers producing goodsfor international fashion and sportswear brands, such as Adidas, VF, Target, Nike, and Gap, were deprived of an estimated US$ 109 million in wages during the April and May 2021 national lockdown, according to calculations by Cambodian trade unions and Clean Clothes Campaign. Unions and activists call on international brands to pay workers’ full wages throughout the duration of the pandemic and sign an enforceable agreement to prevent future pay theft.  

[PDF]Letter by Kalpona Akter to the European Commission on sustainable corporate governance legislationhttps://cleanclothes.org/file-repository/kalpona_akter_open_letter_scg_legislation.pdf2 years agoBangladeshi labour rights activist and former garment workers wrote a letter (July 2021) to European Commissioners Didier Reynders and Thierry Breton who are jointly working on a legislative proposal on Sustainable Corporate Governance about how only a law that addresses the root causes of violations and has accountability at its core will truly transform and protect people’s lives.[Download]

Open letter to European Commissioners: Kalpona Akter calls for strong protections against violations and access to justice for victimshttps://cleanclothes.org/news/2021/letter-by-kalpona-akter-to-the-european-commission-on-sustainable-corporate-governance-legislation2 years agoBangladeshi human rights defender Kalpona Akter wrote an open letter to European Commissioners Didier Reynders and Thierry Breton who are jointly working on a legislative proposal on Sustainable Corporate Governance.

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Major apparel brands let garment workers’ lives hang in the balancehttps://cleanclothes.org/news/2021/major-apparel-brands-let-garment-workers-lives-hang-in-the-balance2 years agoToday, Clean Clothes Campaign launches a public tracker showing which garment brands are advocates of a new strong binding agreement on factory safety and which major brands are an obstacle to progress in the field of worker safety. The tracker calls out major companies such as H&M and Bestseller (Vero Moda, Jack & Jones) for not using their considerable power to ensure that advances on supply chain factory safety are maintained.

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