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Pandemic-Era Severance Theft at Garment Factories Exceeds Half a Billion Dollars
New WRC research estimates that total severance theft during Covid-19, across the supply chains of global brands and retailers, is already $500 to $850 million... and the pandemic isn’t over.
Outstanding safety hazards at garment factories show that the Accord must be extended and expanded
New report by the WRC and other witness signatories to the Bangladesh Accord reveals that deadly safety hazards remain at factories producing for major apparel brands and retailers.
Myanmar Military Junta Arrests Prominent Trade Union Leader
"With many labour leaders already in hiding or exile, the military’s arrest of Daw Myo Aye poses a serious challenge to the vital role of the Myanmar labour movement in the struggle to restore democracy."
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Remaining Safety Hazards in Bangladeshi Factories Show That Apparel Brands Must Not Abandon Binding Safety Program
In the week of the World Day for Health and Safety at Work, the witness signatories to the Bangladesh Accord have published a report showing that deadly safety hazards remain at factories producing for major apparel brands and retailers. The Accord—the most successful safety program in the contemporary history of apparel supply chains—is set to…
Garment Workers Were ‘Robbed’ Of Millions In Benefits. Which Brands Are Stepping In?
Cheap sweatpants and loungewear were a key comfort during the global pandemic. That we can switch up our wardrobes at so little cost to ourselves is thanks in no small part to the world’s garment workers, who despite being skilled at their jobs are chronically underpaid and—as the pandemic revealed—have few social protections, even though millions have lost work in the past year. Many garment-producing countries offer no unemployment insurance.
Coalition to End Forced Labour in the Uyghur Region Warns Corporations Not to Trade their Human Rights Principles for Market Access
WORLDWIDE — As global fashion brands face commercial retaliation in China over their statements against the use of forced Uyghur labour, the advocates leading the campaign against forced labour in the Uyghur Region are calling on companies not to trade their human rights principles to hang onto commercial advantage.
Why would leading apparel brands and retailers—like Zara, Tommy Hilfiger, and American Eagle—walk away from a life-saving inspection program that is the only effective worker safety initiative in their global supply chains?
The Rana Plaza apparel factory collapse killed more workers than any other manufacturing disaster in human history. The 1,134 known deaths in that building on April 24, 2013, a culmination of more than a decade of mass fatality incidents in Bangladesh’s sprawling garment industry—all in factories producing for leading global brands. The most important thing…