Search results
18 results
Sort by:
BLOG - Global brands, global exploitation
A small Thai factory without a name, more of a room than anything else, few windows, a ceiling low enough that those inside could touch it, toilets too dirty to use, one door at the front, another at the back providing the only fresh air, and no electric fans to cool temperatures of up to 37 degrees Celsius (100F).
BLOG - I made clothes for Uniqlo but I didn’t get paid
Whether you buy a new wardrobe or not won’t change my situation, but knowing what happened to me might get you involved. My story is about Uniqlo, the Japanese brand that’s opening stores like mushrooms in Europe.
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 - Uniqlo and the Women Owed $5.5 Million
In the fashion game, brands always win and garment workers always lose. It’s a stacked deck, the winning hands held by those with the money. In the quest for ever-greater profits, garment workers are often treated as yet another commodity, to be swapped at will, as brands act with impunity and watch their profits rise.
Aslam Hidayet, ex-worker Kizone factory: 'Adidas deceives us'
More than 5000 of you wrote on adidas' and Justin Bieber's Facebook wall to push them to pay the severance pay of the Kizone workers. Justin Bieber failed to respond, and adidas simply sent us a letter arguing that the workers were satisfied with the food vouchers they had been issued with.
WE WON! adidas pays Kizone workers
In a monumental victory, Adidas has agreed to compensate 2,800 Indonesian garment workers who were owed US $1.8 million in severance pay following the closure of sportswear factory PT Kizone.
UNIQLO under fire for factory closure after worker uprising
UNIQLO, one of Asia's biggest fashion brands, has come under fire this month after one of its Chinese supplier factories, Artigas Clothing and Leather, shut down without notice and denied workers severance and social insurance payments.
M&S, Bonmarché and Nygård should compensate Cambodian workers after factory closure
The sudden closure of a garment factory linked to UK and Canadian brands has left 208 workers in Cambodia without jobs, salaries or compensation. A year later these workers, largely women, are still fighting for justice and are in a desperate situation. As they stitched clothes for UK brands Marks and Spencer and Bonmarché, as well as Canadian brand Nygård, the workers are demanding that these companies take responsibility and give them the legally due payments that their supplier failed to provide.
Open letter: After five years, it is high time to pay severance to 345 workers who made adidas and Mizuno shoes
Today five years ago, a group of Indonesian workers started a strike after their employer had denied them the provincial sectoral wage as well as freedom of association. By the end of July, 1,300 workers were dismissed for participating in the strike. Five years on, 345 workers are still fighting for their rightful severance pay. On this day, Clean Clothes Campaign published an open letter to adidas and Mizuno, the two brands that sourced from the factory in the years preceding these events.
Top global sports brands adidas and Mizuno shamefully defy international standards on workers’ rights in Indonesia
Clean Clothes Campaign issues the following statement in response to the refusal of adidas and Mizuno to pay what is owed to workers who made their shoes in Indonesia:
Indonesian workers file FLA complaint against Uniqlo and S.Oliver
After years in which Uniqlo refused to engage in a serious mediation process, Clean Clothes Campaign (CCC) together with the workers of the Indonesian Jaba Garmindo factory group filed a complaint with the Fair Labor Association (FLA). The complaint is directed against Fast Retailing, parent company of the Uniqlo brand, and German brand s. Oliver for violating FLA’s Workplace Code of Conduct and its “Principles of Fair Labor and Responsible sourcing”, designed to ensure the “respectful and ethical treatment of workers” and to “promote sustainable conditions” in the garment industry.
Campaigners call on Uniqlo to resolve wage theft case for International Women’s Day
Campaigners from the Clean Clothes Campaign and Labour Behind the Label will be marking International Women’s Day 2020 by holding a demonstration on Saturday 7th March outside Uniqlo’s flagship London store in solidarity with 2,000 garment workers from the former Jaba Garmindo factory in Indonesia.
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.
Garment workers need apparel companies’ assurance that they will be paid during this crisis
Garment workers are among those most economically vulnerable in the COVID-19 crisis, due to structural inequalities in global garment supply chains. A call launched today by labour rights organisations and trade unions, urges apparel companies to guarantee that all workers in their supply chain will receive their legally mandated or regular wages and benefits, whichever is higher.
Uniqlo and the women owed $5.5 million
In the fashion game, brands always win and garment workers always lose. It’s a stacked deck, the winning hands held by those with the money. In the quest for ever-greater profits, garment workers are often treated as yet another commodity, to be swapped at will, as brands act with impunity and watch their profits rise.
Workers Suffer While Fashion Brands’ Profits Return
200 rights organisations demand brands fix their broken industry by putting the money on the table to ensure workers can feed their families and respecting labour rights. For only ten cents more per t-shirt, companies like Amazon, Nike, and Next can make sure workers survive the pandemic.
Leading rights groups call on Nike to push its supplier Ramatex to remediate supply chain abuses in Cambodia
58 leading labour and human rights groups are demanding sportswear giant Nike end its standoff with Thai and Cambodian garment workers to finally fulfill its human rights commitments and pay its supply chain workers the $2.2 million in unpaid wages and benefits they have been waiting for since 2020. The workers of the Violet Apparel factory, owned by Nike’s primary manufacturing partner, the multi-million dollar conglomerate Ramatex Group, were denied $1.4 million in legal benefits since the Violet Apparel factory closed in 2020.
COVID-19 Pandemic: A Pretext to Roll Back Sri Lankan Garment Workers’ Rights
This March 2021 brief by AFL-CIO, Clean Clothes Campaign, Labour Behind the Label, Workers United, Maquila Solidarity Network, War on Want, and USAS draws attention to the situation of Sri Lankan garment workers during the pandemic.