Backsliding Toward Disaster?

In a memorandum to global apparel brands that participate in the garment industry’s most respected workplace safety programme, leading labour rights NGOs have shared new research findings showing that factory owner influence over the programme’s operations in Bangladesh is weakening enforcement and endangering workers. The NGOs – Clean Clothes Campaign (CCC), Worker Rights Consortium (WRC), and Maquila Solidarity Network (MSN), which are Witness Signatories to the International Accord – call for restructuring the RSC governance to eliminate employer influence over the inspection process and maintain the integrity of the safety programme.