LBL believes that everyone with a stake in the garment industry has a responsibility to improve working conditions:

• Workers need to join together and demand better rights,  
• consumers need to take ethics into account in the way that they shop and to enter into dialogue with companies,
• governments need to step in and defend workers' rights through legislation,
• and finally companies, especially the big brands at the top of the supply chain.

While all the mainstream clothing companies have a long way to go, some have begun to improve working conditions in their supply chains. What we ask of all companies is that they accept their responsibility for working conditions in all the factories producing their products and adopt a code of conduct that sets out workers' rights in the workplace.

Labour Behind the Label's Vision Mission and Values

Vision: a transformation of the distribution of power in the clothing industry, so that the rights of people at work and in the community are respected.

Mission: As part of the movement for global justice, we support garment workers' demands through strategic actions aimed at those involved in the production, marketing and consumption of clothing.

Values:

• We work in a way that is consistent with how we want the world to be, not how it is.
• We believe transformational change is needed: we won't pursue short-term goals where this comes at the expense of achieving our long term vision.
• We are independent from the clothing industry: we are campaigners, not consultants.
• We always take our cue from garment workers or their representatives, above all else.
• We try to support and draw together other organisations working in support of garment workers' rights; we do not try to compete with them.
• We emphasise that gender is central to the problems faced by garment workers and the solutions required.