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Garment workers in Hugo Boss supply chain fight union busting in context of Sri Lanka crisis

For almost three years, workers at Lanka Leather Fashion in Sri Lanka have been fighting for their right to unionise. The German-owned company was among the first to be established in the country’s free trade zone. It is Asia’s oldest and one of the region’s largest producers of high-end leather garments, boasting high-profile customers such as Hugo Boss.

Statement on the crisis faced by garment workers in Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka’s garment workers have been bearing the brunt of the financial and political crisis that has haunted the country for over 1.5 years, with high inflation and currency devaluation pushing workers into poverty while the government and employers repress their right to organise. With the government now rushing through procedurally unsound changes to labour laws, and domestic debt restructuring measures targeting workers’ social security funds, garment workers in Sri Lanka will be deprived of even more basic rights and protections against precarity.

Human rights and labour rights organisations express concern about planned changes to Sri Lankan Labour law

Amnesty International, Clean Clothes Campaign, and Human Rights urgently call on the Sri Lankan Government to halt the current proposals for a new Labour Law and to ensure that reforms to the labour laws are only taken after due consultation with workers and their representatives. These organisations express serious concerns the proposed reforms which, as they stand, would weaken the rights and protection of workers by removing international minimum standards and rights. The concerns expressed in this letter reflect and follow repeatedly expressed protests and alarm by a broad coalition of unions and civil society organisations in Sri Lanka.

Trail of broken promises: Levi’s denies justice to unlawfully fired workers in Türkiye

After a serious instance of union busting at the Levi’s supply factory Özak Tekstil in Şanlıurfa, Türkiye, late in 2023, Levi’s made promises to uphold workers’ rights to freedom of association that the company failed to live up to in subsequent months. In response tonew research into the violations by the Worker Rights Consortium published earlier today, Clean Clothes Campaign renews its call on Levi’s to live up to its earlier promises and protect its workers’ right to organise freely.

Open Letter Sri Lanka AI CCC HRW

Amnesty International, Clean Clothes Campaign and Human Rights Watch express concern about the plans for changes to the labour law in Sri Lanka and the lack of transparency and process.

Update on the Labour Rights Crisis in Bangladesh

[April 2017] This document provides an update about the labour rights crisis in Bangladesh since the agreement signed in February 2017 between trade unions and the government.