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Take Action: What can you do?
EU Citizen? Call for a #LivingWage as standard with #GoodClothesFairPay
Email Nike who owe Ramatex workers $1.4 million.
Email Urban Ofitters and petition Zara to #EndUghurForcedLabour.
E-mail brands to #SignTheAccord and keep factories safe.
Tweet Uniqlo who owe women workers $5.5 million.
News and reports
News: Apparel workers still worst sufferers from Covid impacts
Report: BHRRC Myanmar's Garment worker abuse and case tracker.
News: Turkish garment workers earn just a quarter of a living wage
News: Cornell research supports #PYW campaign
Watch: Beyond the label - Made in Serbia
Podcast: Women fight for safe workplaces - Clean Clothes Podcast E2
#PayYourWorkers & #RespectLabourRights
Sign the petition calling on brands to commit to a binding agreement on severance, wages and union rights.
Tweet Nike to pay Ramatex factory workers in Cambodia.
Creative action ideas to call on brands to pay workers what they're owed!
Info:
- adidas COVID wage theft and Hulu Garment.
- Orljava factory in Croatia supplying Olymp, German shirt brand.
- Ramatex factory Violet Apparel supplying Nike in Cambodia.
- COVID-19 live-blog collecting worker and factory stories.
#LivingWageNow: Good Clothes Fair Pay.
Help us get 1 million signatures from EU citizens demanding a living wage for the people who make our clothes!
Follow Good clothes fair pay for updates.
Read the frequently asked questions!
Info: Good Clothes, Fair Pay is a campaign demanding living wage legislation across the garment, textile and footwear sector. We need 1 million signatures from EU citizens to push for laws that require buisnesses importing into the EU to pay the workers in their supply chains a living wage. Though this is an EU initative, the outcome will affect the global supply chain.
#SignTheAccord to keep factories safe!
Send an email to brands like Levi's and IKEA who haven't shown they care about workers' lives by signing the Accord.
Check the brand tracker to find out if your favourite brand has signed - If not, call them out on their social media!
Info: The new International Accord continues and expands on the important work of the Bangladesh Accord, making factories safe for workers. Find out more in our Q&A and take a look at our factory incidents timeline to find out why the Accord is needed beyond Bangladesh.
End Uyghur Forced Labour
Tell Urban Ofitters to #EndUghurForcedLabour
Take action against Zara, Apple, Nike, HugoBoss.
Info:
- Information is collected through Uyghur groups in the coalition and open source resources like The Xinjiang Data Project.
- Read the research explaining how forced labour cotton permeates global garment supply chains.
Brands must pay a #EuropeFloorWage
Earning a living wage is a human right but garment workers in Europe struggle to make ends meet on their current wages.
We developed a benchmark for living wages in European countries that reflects the reality of garment production in Europe.
Visit wageforward.org for more information on poverty wages in the garment industry.
NIKE LIES! Tell Nike to #PayYourWorkers!
Send an email to Nike and Matalan, former suppliers of the now closed Ramatex factory Violet Apparel.
Every voice counts!
Info: Workers have been fighting since July 2020 for the $1.4 million unpaid compensation and damages they are entitled to under Cambodian law. Nike told the WRC that they hadn't produced clothes at Violet Apparel since 2006, but photos from inside the factory from 2019 show the workers producing Nike products.
#PayUpUniqlo: How to steal your workers' future.
Tweet Uniqlo who owe women workers $5.5 million.
Read workers' open letter to the Chairman of Uniqlo and the CEO of s.Oliver.
Watch our short film to hear Uniqlo worker Murni's story.
Info: Uniqlo have not responded to calls to pay 2000 women from the Jaba Garmindo factory the $5.5 million they are owed in severance since 2015. Visit our campaign page for worker stories.
Fashion Checker: Put exploitation in the spotlight.
Look up which brands pay a living wage.
Read our Minimag: It's time to settle the score!
Watch the film: Wings Are Not For Sale
Info: Fashion Checker is a garment supply chain transparency tool developed as part of the filling the gap campaign.