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Let's Clean Up Fashion 2009
Tuesday, 06 October 2009 16:06
Many of the biggest brands have publicly accepted that garment workers' wages need to increase. But no company is yet paying workers a living wage. Let's Clean up Fashion 2009 surveys the state of pay on the UK high street. Download it now (pdf 1mb)
Let's Clean Up Fashion 2008
Friday, 12 September 2008 08:30
Britain’s fashion industry is split on paying garment factory workers more in developing countries, a survey of 27 of the top fashion brands reveals today.
Clearing the Hurdles
Monday, 21 April 2008 00:00
Steps to Improving Wages and Working Conditions in the Global Sportswear Industry.
Playing fair at London 2012
Tuesday, 01 January 2008 00:00
Labour Behind the Label, as part of Read our full briefing here » (pdf 190Kb)
Let's Clean Up Fashion: 2007 update
Wednesday, 12 September 2007 20:05
The state of pay behind the UK high street. For over a decade, consumers, workers and campaigners have been calling on fashion brands to make sure the workers who produce the clothes they sell are paid a living wage. For two years in a row, Labour Behind the Label has interrogated the biggest players in the fashion industry, to see what progress has been made. Based on evidence from partners in-country, written submissions from 23 companies, and meetings with 11 companies, it is the most comprehensive study of the case for and progress towards a living wage for the labour behind the labels.
Download the 2007 update (20 pages, pdf 750Kb) »
Download the 2007 profiles (48 pages, pdf 850 Kb) »
No medal for the Olympics
Monday, 02 July 2007 00:00
Detailed research undertaken inside China by Playfair 08 – represented in the UK by the TUC and Labour Behind the Label - into working conditions in four factories making 2008 Olympic bags, headgear, stationery and other products reveals that factory owners are falsifying employment records, and forcing workers to lie about their wages and conditions.
Bulletin 27: Working more for you for less
Sunday, 29 April 2007 19:00
Includes -The exploitation behind George at Asda, Bangladesh update, Indian workers gagged, Tesco in Child labour row.
Fashion Victims: The true cost of cheap clothes at Tesco Asda and Primark
Tuesday, 12 December 2006 00:00
This new report by War on Want uncovers evidence of workers in Bangladesh regularly working 80 hours a week for just 5p an hour, in potential death trap factories, to produce cheap clothes for British consumers of Primark , Tesco and Asda’s ‘George’ range. The research found six factories producing for some or all of the companies, and found serious workers rights violations in each, with workers too frightened to join a union and few who had even heard of a code of conduct, let alone spoken openly to social auditors.
These six factories prove that despite the fact that all three have commited to ensuring freedom of association, a living wage, legal working hours and proper monitoring and verifaction of supplier factories illegal and exploitative conditions are found within their supply chain. Whilst the research focused on factories in Bangladesh we can have little confidence similar conditions don't exist in other factories or other countries.
Read more: Fashion Victims: The true cost of cheap clothes at Tesco Asda and Primark
Let's Clean Up Fashion: the state of pay behind the UK high street
Wednesday, 13 September 2006 15:00
For over a decade, consumers, workers and campaigners have been calling on fashion brands to make sure the workers who produce the clothes they sell are paid a living wage. At the start of 2006, Labour Behind the Label decided it was time to check in with the fashion industry, to see what progress has been made. This report presents the results of our investigation, revealing who is - and isn’t - doing what.
Download the full, 80-page report (pdf 2Mb)
Download the 6-page executive summary (pdf 2Mb)
Order printed copies of the report and executive summary
Read more: Let's Clean Up Fashion: the state of pay behind the UK high street
Bulletin 26: Low cost, high price
Thursday, 03 August 2006 07:27
Includes - Low cost high price, Bangladesh a low-cost retailer's dream, World Cup winners and losers, Cambodian victory, support El-Salvador workers
More Articles...
- Who Pays For Cheap Clothes? 5 questions the low-cost retailers must answer
- Sweet FA? Football Associations, workers' rights, and the World Cup
- Offside: labour rights and sportswear production in Asia
- Bulletin 25: Tragedy in Bangladesh
- Made by Women: Gender, the Global Garment Industry and the Movement for Women Workers Rights
- Stitched Up
- Looking for a quick fix: How weak social auditing is keeping workers in sweatshops
- Freedom of Association and The Right to Collective Bargaining
- Bulletin 24
- Asda-Wal-Mart: the alternative report
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