Labour Behind The Label

Tuesday March 8, 2011 marks 100 years of International Women's Day. It all began with the garment industry. In 1909, a strike of 30,000 garment workers in the United States, mainly migrant women, almost shut down the garment industry. It lasted for three months and won most of the workers’ demands for the right to organise and bargain collectively, and improved wages and working conditions.

In the garment industry where 75% of the workforce is female, gender is a huge consideration. Labour Behind the Label supports women workers in garment producing countries around the world who struggle on a day to day basis to uphold their rights as women and mothers in their fight for equality. Here are some of their stories.