News overview
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July 1, 2025
Montblanc contract workers take luxury giant Richemont to court
Today, 1 July, marks the opening of the court case brought by Z Production workers against Pelletteria Richemont Firenze, the Scandicci (FI)-based company responsible for outsourcing the production of Montblanc handbags. Pelletteria Richemont is a subsidiary of Compagnie Financière Richemont, a Geneva-based (CH) financial holding operating in the fashion and luxury sectors, and the owner of the Montblanc brand.
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June 12, 2025
Solidarity statement on Korean law to protect people and environment
The Clean Clothes Campaign (CCC) stands in solidarity with workers, civil society and human rights defenders in South Korea advocating for a national law to protect human rights and the environment from abuses by business enterprises and calls on Korean law-makers to support the Act on the Protection of Human Rights and the Environment for Sustainable Business Management.
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June 2, 2025
NEXT shuts down its only unionised factory in Sri Lanka after posting £1.08 billion profit forecast
Joint statement from Free Trade Zones & General Service Employees Union, Clean Clothes Campaign, War on Want, and Labour Behind the Label in response to NEXT’s closure of the Katunayake factory in Sri Lanka: While NEXT PLC celebrates another boost to its annual profit forecast — now expected to hit £1.08 billion this year — over 1,400 of its employees in Sri Lanka are facing a brutal reality: they’ve been sacked via WhatsApp.
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April 24, 2025
Clean Clothes Campaign’s solidarity statement on the twelfth Rana Plaza anniversary
Twelve years ago today the Rana Plaza building in Bangladesh collapsed, killing at least 1,138 people in a preventable disaster. Today, the global Clean Clothes Campaign network reaffirms its solidarity with all those affected by this horrific tragedy and states its commitment to continue fight the root causes of the collapse, including unsafe factories, poverty wages, corporate negligence, and union busting.
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April 18, 2025
NGOs challenge European Commission’s undemocratic ‘Omnibus’ process
A coalition of seven NGOs today lodged a formal complaint with the European Ombudsman, condemning the undemocratic, untransparent and rushed way in which the European Commission has developed the Omnibus proposal.
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April 17, 2025
Twelve years after Rana Plaza collapse, it is high time for legal protection for workers
Thursday, 24th April, marks twelve years since the collapse of the Rana Plaza building in Bangladesh. At least 1138 people died, the large majority of them garment workers in one of the five factories that the building housed. Although fashion brands professed in 2013 that this disaster would be a catalyst for change in their supply chains, actual progress has been limited to issues regulated by binding agreements. Clean Clothes Campaign calls upon brands to stop making and breaking meaningless promises and commit to binding obligations.
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April 7, 2025
Garment workers cannot be made to pay the price for Trump’s tariff war
On 2 April, the Trump administration announced hefty trade tariffs to be imposed on countries around the world. The high percentages imposed on US imports from garment producing countries such as Cambodia, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Lesotho, and Vietnam mean that garment production will be heavily affected by these measures. The Clean Clothes Campaign network calls upon US and global garment companies to ensure that the costs for these new policies are not offloaded on those that can least afford it, the workers, and instead to absorb costs themselves rather than pushing them down the supply chain.
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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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