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Excessive employer influence is weakening worker safety protections in Bangladesh’s garment industry
In a memorandum to global apparel brands that participate in the garment industry’s most respected workplace safety programme, leading labour rights NGOs have shared new research findings showing that factory owner influence over the programme’s operations in Bangladesh is weakening enforcement and endangering workers.
BLOG - It Is Time for the Next Binding Agreement
After the Rana Plaza collapse, the Accord has that a binding agreement between brands and trade unions has the capacity to tackle a longstanding problem, improve the lives of workers, while being cost-effective for brands. The time has now come for the next binding agreement to address another longstanding problem: wage and severance theft.
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) about the Bangladesh Safety Accord
A collection of FAQs about the Accord of Fire and Building Safety in Bangladesh
After years of pressure Levi’s commits to protecting workers in Pakistan
Denim giant Levi’s Strauss has signed a binding agreement to ensure that garment workers making its jeans in Pakistan will finally be able to go to work without having to fear for their lives.
BLOG - Dhaka fire shows that Bangladesh must build better safety systems, rather than scrap the Accord
On the night of 20th February a fire broke out and rapidly spread through the densely packed Chawkbazar district in Dhaka, Bangladesh. At least 70 people died in the fire, which was exacerbated by illegally stored, highly combustible chemicals in the buildings.
BLOG - Nine years since deadly fire at major Walmart supplier, campaigners urge Walmart to stop hiding from real commitments to safety
Exactly nine years ago, a devastating factory fire in Bangladesh killed at least 113 workers and injured many more. Almost a decade later, major brands and retailers whose clothes were made in this factory, such as Walmart, Disney, and Dickies, continue to put their workers at risk. We spend this day commemorating the workers who died in this preventable fire. In addition, we are continuing to remind garment brands and retailers that they must finally draw lessons from this horrific catastrophe and urgently take critical steps to prevent future fires and deadly safety incidents so that no more families have to suffer such an awful loss.
BLOG - Six years after the Rana Plaza collapse – what happened to the goodwill of the garment industry giants?
Six years ago today, a building came crashing down, shattering the worlds of thousands of garment workers. In the wake of this tragedy, there was one world that remained unchanged in Bangladesh, that of the global garment industry.
BLOG - Preserving the legacy of the Rana Plaza wake-up call
BLOG - Rethinking MSIs: Binding Brands to Create Change
When the COVID19 pandemic hit, garment brands and retailers around the world cancelled their orders. What was to them a logical risk and cost reducing measure, meant destitution for millions of garment workers around the world.
BLOG - When ‘business as usual’ costs lives: workers in Pakistan call for a binding safety agreement
The global garment industry meets in Pakistan this week, giving them a golden opportunity to accept the lessons of the Ali Enterprises fire and take the first steps toward negotiating a safety agreement with workers’ groups.
BLOG - Why all companies sourcing apparel from Bangladesh should join the 2018 Accord
BLOG - Why the Accord will be here until 2021
BLOG - Workers in factory incidents beyond the international spotlight need financial security
Backsliding Toward Disaster?
In a memorandum to global apparel brands that participate in the garment industry’s most respected workplace safety programme, leading labour rights NGOs have shared new research findings showing that factory owner influence over the programme’s operations in Bangladesh is weakening enforcement and endangering workers. The NGOs – Clean Clothes Campaign (CCC), Worker Rights Consortium (WRC), and Maquila Solidarity Network (MSN), which are Witness Signatories to the International Accord – call for restructuring the RSC governance to eliminate employer influence over the inspection process and maintain the integrity of the safety programme.
Twelve years after Rana Plaza collapse, it is high time for legal protection for workers
Thursday, 24th April, marks twelve years since the collapse of the Rana Plaza building in Bangladesh. At least 1138 people died, the large majority of them garment workers in one of the five factories that the building housed.
Call on Gap to protect Bangladeshi workers' lives
Since 2006 at least 500 Bangladeshi garment workers have died in factory fires while sewing clothing for giant fashion companies, like Gap and H&M. Future tragic deaths could be prevented if companies like Gap would follow the lead of brands like Tommy Hilfiger and the German retailer Tchibo, by agreeing to a fire safety program that includes really independent inspections, mandatory repairs and renovations of safety hazards, a central role for workers and unions, transparency and binding commitments to protect workers.
Demand justice for the victims of the Tazreen fire
On the 24th November 2012, at least 112 workers died in the fire at Tazreen Fashions, a garment factory near Dhaka, Bangladesh. Many of the workers jumped to their deaths trying to escape from the nine story building. Others, unable to escape the blaze, were burned alive. Tazreen produced for a host of well known brand names, including C&A, KIK, Walmart, Li & Fung, Edinburgh Woollen Mill, Disney, Dickies, Sean Comb (ENYCE) and Kmart/Sears.
Tazreen fire: What brands should do, and their responses so far
Brands should help the victims. The brands should take swiftly a clear principle commitment on compensation, which needs to be negotiated with the trade unions representing the workers at Tazreen, and be based on international standards as well as established precedents and customs in Bangladesh. The international buyers from the Tazreen factory bear responsibility for full redress of the victims, which includes contribution to the loss of income and damages for the injured and families of the dead.
Two months after Tazreen: still no money
C&A's compensation for Bangladeshi fire victims falls short
Last week, C&A outlined its compensation package for the Tazreen victims. C&A fails to base calculations for the compensation package for the Tazreen’s victims on relevant international standards and established best practices.
Call upon Tazreen brands to deliver the goods
Three months after the fire at Tazreen, many families of the 112 dead workers are still waiting for compensation. The majority of the workers with injuries from the flames are also barely able to live from hand to mouth without help. So far the amounts paid by the brands are made up out of whole cloth, they are far from full and fair compensation.
CCC calls upon Solo Invest, KIK and Fox and Scott to contribute to compensation for SMART fire victims
CCC welcomes the agreement that was reached between unions in Bangladesh (IndustriALL Bangladesh) and global brands Inditex and New Look on the compensation for the families of 8 workers who died in a fire at Smart Fashions on the 26th of January this year. The workers were young women, six of them aged between 16 and 20 years old.
Spectrum collapse: eight years on and still little action on safety
April 11 marks the eighth anniversary of the tragic collapse of the Spectrum garment factory. In 2005 the illegally built extra floors within the building collapsed, killing 64 workers and injuring 80 others. The tragedy set the standard for worker compensation, yet workers of recent fatal accidents remain without compensation.
Labels Primark and Mango found after factory collapse Bangladesh
The Clean Clothes Campaign, along with trade unions and labour rights organisations in Bangladesh and around the world is calling for immediate action from international brands following today's collapse of the Rana Plaza building in Savar, in Dhaka Bangladesh.
“Stop the killing, act now” Clean Clothes Campaign urges brands to sign Safety Agreement
Clean Clothes Campaign is sickened by the preventable collapse of Rana Plaza and condemns brands for their failure to prevent such heavy loss of life once again. Brands must now come forward, ensure emergency steps are taken and pay without delay into a compensation fund for the victims and their families. They must also commit to prevent future disasters.