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Wages: a living wage and severance pay
If they think these wages are enough, they should try to live on them for a month and then decide whether they’re OK. • Pakistani factory worker, 18
Calling for Living Wage Action Day on 25 September
The Clean Clothes Campaign network will join forces with partners and allies worldwide to mark for the first time Living Wage Action Day on 25 September 2024. Our main aim is to initiate a global movement dedicated to ensuring all workers receive a wage that meets their basic needs: a living wage!
BLOG - Big brands have mistreated their workers throughout the COVID-19 crisis
Stark figures from the Clean Clothes Campaign show that garment workers are owed between 2.42 and 4.38 billion GBP in unpaid wages from the first three months of the Covid-19 pandemic alone.
BLOG - Brands are weathering the pandemic. Garment workers are not
As researchers and advocates working to improve labor rights in the garment industry, we are used to heartbreaking stories. But what we are seeing during the pandemic is a new level of despair among workers, as widespread loss of jobs and income robs them of the ability to feed their families.
BLOG - It's time for global clothing brands to defend Sri Lankan workers
Sri Lanka’s yearlong economic and political crisis, which led to the president being toppled last year, is unsurprisingly hitting the country’s lowest-paid workers hardest.
BLOG - Former workers of Neo Trend remain empty-handed after 14-month-long engagement with Ethical Trading Initiative and member brand Next
Turkish garment factory Neo Trend Textile closed officially on 1 July 2021 due to a loss of orders in the COVID-19 pandemic.
BLOG - Garment workers cannot foot the bill for the pandemic
With shops closing and people staying at home, the pandemic has changed how we shop but also how garment workers live.
BLOG - H&M praised by media for committing to pay poverty wages
Last week several media outlets applauded H&M for committing to raise its purchasing prices to meet the increased legal minimum wage for the garment sector in Bangladesh. H&M is reportedly the first global brand to tell its Bangladeshi suppliers it will do so. While this may be true, the praise heaped upon H&M is unwarranted, and the fact the industry and media applaud it is indicative of a thoroughly broken system.
BLOG - Is Your Brand Paying Its Share to Reduce Bangladesh Workers’ Wage Despair?
Garment worker protests, a brutal police crackdown, worker deaths, arrests, and worker repression, and finally an official minimum wage announcement that is far below living wage levels.
BLOG - Cambodian garment workers: never paid enough to escape the debt
The new minimum wage for garment workers in Cambodia is set at 204 USD per month, despite trade unions’ demand for a much bigger increase. The new minimum wage is a huge disappointment for the 700,000 workers in the Cambodian garment and footwear sector, who are increasingly struggling to make ends meet.
BLOG - Open letter to brands producing in Bangladesh
To H&M, Bestseller, Next, Primark, C&A, Uniqlo, M&S, Puma, VF Corp., PVH, Walmart and Zara, and all international brands producing clothes in Bangladesh:
BLOG - Talk of sustainability is hollow until fashion brands pay their workers
Sustainability is the fashion buzzword brands love to promote, yet many knowingly overlook a key element: there is nothing sustainable about wage injustice that forces garment workers to live in abject poverty.
BLOG - Philip Green is the Scrooge who haunts millions of garment workers
The collapse of Arcadia in the lead-up to Christmas, and with it the demise of Sir Philip Green’s controversial reign over the UK high street, has a Dickensian feel to it.
BLOG - The fashion industry echoes colonialism – and DfID's new scheme will subsidise it
Is the UK governed by parliamentary democracy or big businesses?
BLOG - The fashion industry must learn from coronavirus
The new coronavirus (COVID-19) is said to have first emerged in China at the end of December 2019. Despite its far-reaching impact, COVID-19 is far from a great leveller.
BLOG - Too poor? Shut up and work harder! How the BGMEA president tries to gloss over poverty wages
The flawed new minimum wage for ready-made garment workers in Bangladesh has led to a global outcry. 12,500 taka per month will keep the countries’ 4 to 4.5 million garment workers trapped in poverty. Instead of revising the disgraceful decision, Faruque Hassan, president of the business owners’ association BGMEA, felt compelled to publish a “clarification” note. However, the only thing the note clarifies is the dimension of disrespect of the employers’ president for the labour law and the lack of empathy for the dire situation of the workforce.
BLOG - Your Brand World Cup exploitation starts with the kits
The FIFA World Cup has been built on a decade of human rights violations: whichever way you look, it’s workers from the global South who are exploited.
H&M under fire as Swedish television unearths Cambodian production scandal
A documentary revealing the miserable conditions faced by Cambodian factory workers producing goods for the fashion retailer H&M was aired on Swedish national television last night. Campaigners and the media are calling on H&M to respond to allegations of poverty pay in the industry.
New report looks at company progress towards a living wage
Tailored Wages is an in depth study of the policies and practices companies are doing - or not - to implement a living wage.
Comment: Labels found in Primark clothes.
Clean Clothes Campaign responds to recent stories of 'calls for help' found in Primark clothing.
H&M's sustainability promises will not deliver a living wage
Clean Clothes Campaign (CCC) is today calling on H&M to show evidence to back up its 'fair living wage' claims, following the release of a new Sustainability Report. The campaign says that making marketing capital from workers' poverty with little evidence of change is unethical and stands to slow down progress in the industry.
Adidas and Nike pay record-breaking amounts to footballers, but deny decent wages to women stitching their shirts
While millions of people are getting ready to cheer their favorite teams during the Football World Cup, a report by Éthique sur l’étiquette and Clean Clothes Campaign, ‘Foul Play’, reveals that adidas and Nike, major sponsors of the global event, pay poverty wages to the thousands of women in their supply chain that sew the football shirts and shoes of players and supporters.
Demonstrations at Bangladeshi embassies demand respect for garment workers’ rights
This week labour activists and trade unionists around the world are expressing their solidarity with garment workers in Bangladesh through demonstrations in front of Bangladeshi embassies and consulates in cities around the world.
A year after crackdown on wage protests in Bangladesh, hundreds of workers still face retaliatory charges
A year ago, tens of thousands of workers in Bangladesh went on strike against the poverty wages that are pervasive in the country’s export-oriented garment industry. On 13 January 2019, a minimal wage revision was announced that, together with massive repression, led workers to end the demonstrations that had been going on since December. Thousands of workers were unable to go back to work, however, facing punishment for their peaceful protest through politically-motivated dismissals, blacklisting, and criminal charges. Public pressure has in the past weeks and months led to withdrawal of at least eight criminal cases. Nevertheless, one year on, hundreds of workers continue to face the threat of serving time in prison for trumped-up and retaliatory charges.
Garment workers on poverty pay are left without billions of their wages during pandemic
Millions of garment workers around the world have not received their regular wages, or have not been paid at all, for months since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, shows a new report by Clean Clothes Campaign, launched today.