Labour Behind The Label

Our Action Card this time deals with the crucial worker safety issues of factory fires and mass fainting.

• Clean Clothes Campaign calls on brands sourcing from Pakistan to undertake immediate reviews of their suppliers.
• Ali Enterprises reportedly supplied the European market.
• CCC warns that similar disasters could happen again if the root causes of these fires are not addressed urgently.

Information emerging from Pakistan today suggests that the Ali Enterprise factory in Karachi, which burned down on Tuesday killing over 300 workers, was supplying goods to the European market. The Clean Clothes Campaign is now calling on all brands and retailers sourcing from Karachi to undertake immediate reviews of all their suppliers.

UK anti sweatshop group, Labour Behind the Label, is calling on the fashion industry to do more to ensure the safety of workers after more than 250 workers perished in 3 separate factory fires in Pakistan and Russia.

Report into conditions of football stitches in China, India, Pakistan and Thailand. Released in June 2010, this report, produced by US labour rights group ILRF, shows that little has improved for workers in this notoriously exploitative indistry. Covering 7 factories producing for some of the biggest sportswear brands including Nike, Umbro and adidas the research showed that child labour is stil being used, that most of the workers are on temprary contracts and over half were not earning the living wage.