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BLOG - Zara Promises Sustainability, But What About Its Garment Workers?
Last week, Zara publicly announced that all of its clothes will be made from 100% sustainable fabrics by 2025.
Activists disrupt Zara’s European distribution centre on the first day of COP29, chanting “No climate justice without garment workers’ rights!”
Anti-fast fashion activists from Clean Clothes Campaign and XR Fashion Action target Inditex’s (Zara) distribution centre in Lelystad, The Netherlands to call out the brands’ failure to protect the rights of garment workers in Bangladesh.
How Inditex usurps the word ‘Respect’
The fashion giant Inditex, which owns the brand Zara, presents itself as a transparent company that attaches the utmost importance to the people who produce its clothes. Exclusive investigation into the conditions in which one of its iconic hoodies was produced reveals what goes on behind the scenes: meagre wages, excessive hours, precarious contracts. The workers pay the price for the huge pressure to drive down prices that Inditex exerts on its suppliers in order to boost its handsome profits.
Zara must not walk away from safety agreement while workers remain at risk sewing its clothes
A new brief, published by labour rights groups ahead of Inditex’s shareholder meeting of 13 July, shows that the company urgently needs to sign a new binding agreement on factory safety in Bangladesh before the current programme runs out on 31 August 2021. The Accord on Fire and Building Safety in Bangladesh, the most successful safety programme in the contemporary history of apparel supply chains, has enabled great progress, but Inditex must not ignore the deadly hazards that remain.
From moral responsibility to legal liability? - A report on Inditex/Zara in Brasil
This research report from May 2015 exposes Zara’s dodgy legal strategy to avoid liability for Brazilian labour rights abuses. In 2011, Brazilian inspectors found cases of modern-day slavery in Zara’s supply chain. After the scandal, Zara promised improvements by monitoring its supply chain more closely. The new inspection findings and the research report reveal that Zara is not living up to the agreements made with the Brazilian authorities at that time.
Zara's Unfinished Business
This brief by witness signatories to the Accord on Fire and Building Safety in Bangladesh, published in July 2021, looks at the progress rate of safety remediation in Inditex supplier factories in Bangladesh and identified outstanding deadly safety risks at those factories.
