Budget retailers and supermarkets

The 'value' clothing sector, including brands like Asda, Tesco, Matalan and Peacocks, is expanding massively.  This campaign calls for brands to examine the cost of cheap clothes, and ensure that workers are not harmed in the race to the bottom. We support calls for regulation as part of this.

CCC rejects invitation to meet with Asda/Tesco CSR initiative

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Monday, 11 June 2007 06:54

The Clean Clothes Campaign, represented in the UK by Labour Behind the Label, has written an open letter to the new Global Social Compliance Programme, brainchild of four of the world's biggest retailers, saying that "has strong reservations about the value of the initiative" and explaining why at the moment we see no value in accepting an invitation to meet with it.

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Tesco child labour allegations demonstrate flawed auditing

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Wednesday, 11 October 2006 10:44

An investigation by Channel 4 news has found children as young as 12 producing clothes for Tesco's Florence & Fred range in Bangladesh.  The allegations are further evidence of two key flaws in the efforts made by clothing retailers like Tesco to prevent workers' rights abuses: poor auditing and harmful purchasing practices.


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