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UK #payyourworkers Nov 2020
New York #PAYYOURWORKERS action 2021
Action in New York for #PayYourWorkers week of action in March 2021
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Netherlands #PayYourWorkers action March 2021
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USA #payyourworkers march 2021
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Warwick, UK #PayYourWorkers
Action in the UK during the #PayYourWorkers action in March 2021
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Workers receiving wages, Myanmar
COVID-19 continues to ravage the health and livelihoods of garment workers
The global COVID-19 pandemic continues to grow and spread. Half of the world’s population is under some form of lock-down or movement restriction in order to control the spread of the novel coronavirus. Garment workers in global supply chains, who already grapple with poverty wages and precarious living situations, face increasing insecurity as factories close in response to steep drops in orders and as governments shut down manufacturing to protect public health.
Activists disrupt the Copenhagen Fashion Summit to spotlight the deepening crisis of garment workers
- Sustainable fashion MUST be sustainable for garment workers. - H&M, Nike and Bestseller have no place supporting "Global Fashion Agenda" while the workers in their supply chains are starving. - Clean Clothes Campaign makes CFS+ (the online Copenhagen Fashion Summit event) its own magazine with the stories that CFS+ left out of its programme. - Global fashion brands need to commit to the wage assurance and #PayYourWorkers.
April 2020 Covid blog
This blog aims to collect daily information about how the new Coronavirus COVID-19 is influencing garment workers' rights in supply chains around the world. It will be updated as new information comes in from media and the Clean Clothes Campaign global network. Information is posted as it comes in from the network and cannot always be double-checked.
August 2020 Covid blog
This blog aims to collect daily information about how the new Coronavirus COVID-19 is influencing garment workers' rights in supply chains around the world. It will be updated as new information comes in from media and the Clean Clothes Campaign global network. Information is posted as it comes in from the network and cannot always be double-checked.
Brands and retailers need to step up now to protect garment workers
The COVID-19 pandemic is exposing the grossly unequal power relations that define global garment supply chains, with workers paying the price. Today the many organizations behind the world-wide Clean Clothes Campaign network are calling for action from brands and retailers -- as well as governments and other stakeholders -- that aims to mitigate the impact of this crisis on those already most exploited in supply chains and to build towards a future in which workers have access to living wages and a social safety net.
Brands must urgently take steps to minimise impact of the coronavirus on garment workers’ health and livelihoods
The new coronavirus has reached global pandemic levels and is affecting people across the world, including garment workers in global supply chains. Protecting those most at risk means both taking steps to limit exposure and ensuring that people surviving on the poverty line are not pushed below it.
C&A finally pays orders placed before the pandemic
Months into the pandemic, clothing giant C&A has agreed to pay in full for orders placed before the pandemic hit. This decision followed a public campaign by the Clean Clothes Campaign together with a broad range of other labour rights groups united behind the hashtag #PayUp.
Lockdown breaches, exploitation, and modern slavery in fast-fashion giant Boohoo’s supply chain in Leicester
Workers reports reveal serious breaches of UK lockdown measures, failure to protect workers from COVID-19 and furlough fraud. Whilst many brands’ profits have taken a hit during the COVID-19 crisis, a surge in online shopping during the lockdown has boosted Boohoo shares by 22%. Earlier this month, Boohoo agreed to buy online businesses of Warehouse and Oasis for £5.25m[1].
COVID-19: A global approach to protecting garment workers in supply chains
Apparel companies around the world responded to the Covid-19 crisis with an immediate resort to the risk-mitigating measures built into global supply chains. Their mass cancellation of orders has left factories around the world without cash to pay their workers.
COVID-19 Demands in defense of Garment Workers in Global Supply Chains
The Clean Clothes Campaign global network has come up with a set of demands upon brands, retailers, e-tailers, and governments to mitigate the effects of the crisis on global garment supply chains caused by the COVID-19 pandemic and to create more resilient systems that work for workers in the future.
Croatian state’s Coronavirus-support subsidises premium German brand Olymp
Croatian garment factory Orljava has been producing for Olymp, their main buyer, for 50 years. However, it is only now, having received government aid in response to Coronavirus, that the supplier is able to pay their workers' wages in accordance with the law.
December 2020 Covid blog
This blog aims to collect daily information about how the new Coronavirus COVID-19 is influencing garment workers' rights in supply chains around the world. It will be updated as new information comes in from media and the Clean Clothes Campaign global network. Information is posted as it comes in from the network and cannot always be double-checked.
First time victory: Romanian workers stitching European brands win withheld wages during COVID-19
A group of workers in Romania received their full back wages after an intense media campaign went viral. During the first months of the pandemic, they received 140 EUR, just over half of their regular monthly wage. The Clean Clothes Campaign (CCC) network and supporters put pressure on Inditex, Holy Fashion and a UK high street brand: three companies sourcing from the Tanex facility. International pressure led these brands to take responsibility to settle the violations between the management and the workers.
Forced labour and debt-trap: migrant workers in Japan face substantial risks during coronavirus outbreak
Report on migrant garment workers in Japan’s state-supported Technical Internship Training Program (TITP) are subjected to widespread labour violations including poverty pay, debt bondage, enforced overtime, and inadequate and crowded living and working conditions. Fears grow for their safety during Coronavirus outbreak.
Former Uniqlo garment workers vulnerable due to COVID-19 restrictions on fifth anniversary of factory closure
Five years after factory bankruptcy, 2,000 workers are still campaigning for $5.5 million legally-owed in severance pay. Many relied on informal work and are now facing unprecedented hardship due to COVID-19 restrictions. Uniqlo has failed in its responsibility to address and remedy adverse human rights impacts of its business practices.
Garment workers in H&M, Primark, and Nike’s supply chains need their full wages during a pandemic
Millions of workers in garment supply chains world-wide have not been paid their full wages during the pandemic or have lost their jobs without adequate financial compensation. Today the Clean Clothes Campaign network starts a campaign calling upon brands to take responsibility for the workers that make their clothes and ensure that workers are paid what they are owed.