Labour Behind The Label

Includes:-

Playfair 2012: New reports; pressure on International Olympic Committee; New research into Sandblasting; International updates; The Six Items Challenge.

Includes:-

Real life stories from Cambodian workers producing for Olympics, London 2012; Playfair campaign updates and progress; New Let's Clean Up Fashion report released; International News.

Jeans brands including Levi's, Lee, Diesel and Zara have come under pressure from new research revealing Bangladeshi garment workers continue to be exposed to deadly lung diseases while producing faded jeans for European consumers.

A new report, Deadly Denim, released by Labour Behind the Label and the Clean Clothes Campaign, found that large factories exporting jeans overseas continue to use sandblasting.

1.10.11

Today activists held a funeral outside high end fashion brand Dolce & Gabbana's Old Bond Street store to send a message to brand owners that killing workers for fashion is unacceptable.

The Italian fashion house Gianni Versace S.p.A. has de-activated its Facebook wall after activists posted dozens of messages demanding that the company ban sandblasting, a technique used to give jeans a used look which is highly dangerous to workers.

LBL's new Killer Jeans report reveals the shame of the denim industry and its potentially deadly dangers to workers' health.

Our latest action card deals with the serious issue of sandblasting and calls for a ban on the practice with specific cards targeting ASDA and River Island that may be detached and sent.

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Killer Jeans campaign launch to ban sandblasting in the denim industry; Corporate response to Taking Liberties report; Playfair 2012 protests at IOC conference; Profile on Turkey and Desa case; FEI conference in Edinburgh 2011; Outreach in te Isle of Man; Global news and more.