News overview
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February 26, 2025
Omnibus proposal: EU Commission bows to big business, betrays workers
With the publication today of its Omnibus proposal for the simplification of corporate accountability and sustainability instruments, including the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD), the European Commission is backpedaling on its commitment to just and sustainable value chains, warns the Clean Clothes Campaign (CCC).
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February 12, 2025
Migrant workers who made clothes for an Otto supplier deprived of wages
In April 2020, in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, management at the Royal Knitting factory in Thailand dismissed Hnin Hnin*, and another 208 workers, without notice, unlawfully denying them wages for work done as well as severance pay. Over 90% of the affected workers are women from Myanmar.
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February 10, 2025
Excessive employer influence is weakening worker safety protections in Bangladesh’s garment industry
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.
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January 28, 2025
Stand Up for the Right to Freedom of Association and Demonstration
Workers from Chinese factories in Prato, Italy, successfully fought for fair working hours. Shortly after their victory, the Swiss fashion group Richemont, which had been manufacturing luxury leather bags in the region, relocated its production, andthe workers lost their jobs. In response, the workers and theSUDD Cobas union took action, attracting the attention of many media outlets. Now, the union is facing an injunction from Montblanc, attempting to preventSUDD Cobasfrom taking further action outside Montblanc shops. This represents an unprecedented attack on the principles of freedom of association and demonstration. We stand in solidarity with the SUDD Cobas union and support this statement of solidarity.
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January 24, 2025
Earthquake survivors in Türkiye successfully challenge factory’s refusal to pay severance
Earthquake survivors in Malatya, Türkiye, who were dismissed in the wake of the deadly tragedy that destroyed their homes, successfully challenged their factory to pay them the compensation owed to them by law. While most of the brands sourcing from the factory were happy to leave these vulnerable workers at the mercy of a lengthy and costly legal process, direct intervention by the union, CCC and one of the brands involved eventually secured justice for these workers.
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December 18, 2024
On International Migrants Day, justifications for migrant worker abuse in Nike’s supply chain put migrant rights under threat
Shortly before today’s International Migrants Day, a new report about a case of wage theft at the Hong Seng Knitting factory in Thailand gives the company’s buyer, Nike, new excuses to ignore the rights of the factory’s mostly Burmese migrant workforce. Labour activists criticise Nike for investing in and hiding behind ever more reports and expensive consultants instead of ensuring workers in their supply chain are paid what they are owed. They furthermore criticise the Fair Labor Association, which issued the report, for justifying blatant worker rights violations.
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December 11, 2024
The Clean Clothes Campaign urges EU Commission not to focus on deregulation at the expenses of workers, human rights and the environment
The Clean Clothes Campaign (CCC) is deeply worried by the European Commission’s announcement of its intention to simplify recently introduced rules on corporate sustainability, in particular the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) and the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD), and urges Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and the College of Commissioners not to backtrack on landmark legislation.
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November 12, 2024
Nine NGOs present CSDDD Transposition Guide
Today, Clean Clothes Campaign together with eight other NGOS, presents a transposition guide on the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD).
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October 17, 2024
Activists disrupt Zara’s European distribution centre on the first day of COP29, chanting “No climate justice without garment workers’ rights!”
Anti-fast fashion activists from Clean Clothes Campaign and XR Fashion Action target Inditex’s (Zara) distribution centre in Lelystad, The Netherlands to call out the brands’ failure to protect the rights of garment workers in Bangladesh.
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October 17, 2024
Fashion brands condemned over mass arrest warrants issued against workers in Bangladesh
Fashion brands including H&M and Zara are facing criticism over their lack of action to protect workers’ basic rights in Bangladesh.
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October 17, 2024
After years of pressure Levi’s commits to protecting workers in Pakistan
Denim giant Levi’s Strauss has signed a binding agreement to ensure that garment workers making its jeans in Pakistan will finally be able to go to work without having to fear for their lives. The Clean Clothes Campaign network welcomes the brand’s decision to join this binding and independent mechanism to protect workers in Pakistan, and is grateful to the many unions and campaigners that have worked with us to make this possible. We also encourage Levi’s to soon take the same decision for workers in Bangladesh.
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September 25, 2024
Luxury brands, cheap practices: fired garment workers abandoned by leading fashion houses
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September 23, 2024
Calling for Living Wage Action Day on 25 September
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!
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September 11, 2024
Statement on the twelfth anniversary of the Ali Enterprises fire
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.
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September 9, 2024
Nike faces unprecedented annual meeting revolt over failure to respect worker rights
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.
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August 7, 2024
Solidarity with the peoples’ movement in Bangladesh
The Clean Clothes Campaign Network stands in solidarity with the people of Bangladesh who were brutalized by the Bangladeshi government and condemns all violence against peaceful protesters. The protests that erupted in July and met with violent repression from the government resulted in at least 300 deaths. On 5 August, the protests led to the ousting of the prime minister.
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