2025
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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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