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📢 A worker-led network of unions and labour orgs fighting to change the working conditions in the fashion industry cleanclothes.org

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The Clean Clothes Campaign (CCC) is the garment industry's largest alliance of labour unions and non-governmental organizations. The civil society campaign focuses on the improvement of working conditions in the garment and sportswear industries. Formed in the Netherlands in 1989, the CCC has campaigns in 15 European countries: Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Ireland, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom. The CCC works with a partner network of more than 250 organizations around the world. .. more

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Worker Rights Consortium @4workerrights.bsky.social · 2d

We joined @cleanclothes.bsky.social, Katalyst Initiative & @solidaritycenter.bsky.social at #ClimateWeekNY for “Too Hot To Fashion”, a panel on what a #JustTransition means for garment workers.

Fair purchasing & living wages are key to tackling fashion’s climate impact.

#LaborRights

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Labour Behind the Label @labourlabel.bsky.social · 2d

Amazon Big Deal days? No, thanks.

We'd rather see Amazon own up to its responsibilities across supply chains. Now that would be a big deal.

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#AmazonPrime #MakeAmazonPay

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Labour Behind the Label @labourlabel.bsky.social · 9d

Almost a year ago we told you the story of Ana, a Guatemalan garment worker who was left without a job and her legally owed severance when her factory shut down. Now, the brands have finally paid in! www.just-style.com/news/lucky-b...

Lucky Brand adds to garment worker severance fund in Guatemala

Lucky Brand is giving $500,000 to workers from the now-closed Industrial Hana factory in Guatemala, a subcontractor for one of its suppliers.

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Clean Clothes Campaign @cleanclothes.bsky.social · 13d

Excellent news!! An important reminder that workers need the pay and severance they have built up after a factory closes and that brands are responsible for unpaid workers in their supply chain.
#PayYourWorkers

Anna Canning @annacanning.bsky.social · 13d

Good news! Lucky Brand to pay $500,000 to garment workers.
This case has immediate impact ($$$ in people's hands) & sets a precedent: No matter the layers of opaque ownership, brands are ultimately responsible for the consequences of their purchasing practices.
dignityandrights.org/2025/09/toge...

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Anna Canning @annacanning.bsky.social · 13d

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Worker Rights Consortium @4workerrights.bsky.social · 14d

We are pleased to report that Lucky Brand has made a humanitarian contribution of $500,000 to assist garment workers at the Industrial Hana factory in Guatemala, which was, prior to its closure, a subcontractor for one of Lucky Brand’s direct apparel suppliers. www.workersrights.org/commentary/l...

Lucky Brand Joins AEO and Puma to Help Workers Owed $1.5 Million by Guatemalan Subcontractor - Worker Rights Consortium

Worker Rights Consortium

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Labour Behind the Label @labourlabel.bsky.social · 14d

Obscene wealth at the top, a life of poverty for the rest.
We won't take it anymore!
For international Living Wage Day our call is simple:

📢 Tax the rich, not the poor.
💰 Living wage, that's the cure.

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📸 Kim Ford @kimfordphotos

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Friends of the Earth Europe @foeeurope.bsky.social · 15d

🤩 Hundreds of people joined the anti-deregulation march yesterday 🤩

Including @larawolters.bsky.social ⬇️

“Deregulation is not going to solve the problems [...] If we are serious about making Europe more robust, more future-proof, then this is not the way to do it"

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Activists lead three-day march on Brussels against EU's 'deregulation wave'

NGOs and trade unions want to draw attention to what they call a "deregulation wave" in the EU. They have been marching from Maastricht (the Netherlands) to Brussels for the last three days, claiming ...

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Clean Clothes Campaign @cleanclothes.bsky.social · 15d

Do you care about workers' rights? We got a new set of pretty stickers to let people know you stand with garment workers.
Donate now to get these stickers to spread the word. Do you have a laptop/water bottle/note book screaming to share a message with the world? cleanclothes.org/stickers

Donate to receive our sticker set

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Clean Clothes Campaign @cleanclothes.bsky.social · 17d

Join us this Thursday for our panel 'Too Hot to Fashion' as part of #ClimateWeekNYC 2025! More details for online and in-person participation: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

#climateweeknyc #climateweeknyc #toohottofashion #justtransition #sustainablefashion #workersrights #climateaction | Clean Clothes Campaign

📢 Next week at #ClimateWeekNYC 2025, we're hosting: Too Hot to Fashion – A Justice-First Dialogue on Climate & Labor 📅 25 September 2025 🕚 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM (ET) 📍 St. Mark’s Church in-the-Bowery, N...

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Avery Trufelman @trufelman.bsky.social · 17d

This Thursday at St Marks Church- what will a warming world mean for garment workers? This is an impressive panel that will have some real answers.

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Clean Clothes Campaign @cleanclothes.bsky.social · 20d

Union leader Anton Marcus says: "Next financial results are built off the back of our members, yet NEXT callously shut down their workplace & left them with no livelihoods. It's time for NEXT Board to decide: is profit at all cost worth the reputational damage of broken promises & destroyed lives?"

Clean Clothes Campaign @cleanclothes.bsky.social · 20d

UK company NEXT announced yesterday that it will pay out 99 million pounds in dividends to shareholders. In the meantime it is closing its wholly owned and only organised factory in Sri Lanka because it is.. checks notes... too expensive!?! Take action: www.labourstartcampaigns.net/show_campaig...

Sri Lanka: NEXT shuts down its only unionised garment factory - by WhatsApp

Please support this LabourStart urgent action campaign and spread the word.

www.labourstartcampaigns.net

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Clean Clothes Campaign @cleanclothes.bsky.social · 20d

ASICS has been standing by idly while one of its suppliers in Cambodia jailed a worker leader on fake charges & refused to compensate him or let him back to his original job.
The one promise they made, that he would get his old job back, was broken immediately.
cleanclothes.org/news/2025/as...

meme showing a blue pill saying: compensate a worker leader who was jailed for organising and a red pill saying: literally nothing. Below a hand with "ASICS" on it among red pills

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Friends of the Earth Europe @foeeurope.bsky.social · 20d

📺Now on TV: How the EU's deregulation wave is reversing important progress on climate, the environment and Human Rights - @pauldeclerck.bsky.social on @artefr.bsky.social

🇫🇷 www.arte.tv/fr/videos/12...
🇩🇪 www.arte.tv/de/videos/12...
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#BackToTheFuture

Paul de Clerck of Friends of the Earth Europe speaking on Arte Journal

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Carla Denyer @carladenyer.bsky.social · 22d

Heat deaths. Let that sink in. This should be a wake-up call.

It's the job of govts across the world to keep their citizens safe. Instead, from continuing oil and gas drilling to dragging their feet on making our homes and workplaces safe from extreme weather, they're failing.

Screenshot of headline reading: Human-made global warming 'caused two in three heat deaths in Europe this summer'

Subheading: Researchers from Imperial College London say 16,500 deaths caused by hot weather brought on by greenhouse gases

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European Coalition for Corporate Justice (ECCJ) @eccjorg.bsky.social · 22d

📰NEWS

We have @ec.europa.eu's answer to watchdog's inquiry into undemocratic Omnibus process

🗨️"Stripping back accountability rules at a time of climate & social crises is indefensible, it puts corporate profits above people’s rights & EU’s climate objectives"
corporatejustice.org/news/joint-p...

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Labour Behind the Label @labourlabel.bsky.social · 23d

Debenhams faces shareholder revolt over executives' pay and bonuses. Meanwhile, it is kicking 1200 workers on the street, or around 3% of jobs in Burnley: www.burnleyexpress.net/business/bur...

‘This is not just jobs, it’s livelihoods’: Burnley Council leader demands government action as Boohoo confirms closure

Burnley’s council leader has written to the government calling for urgent intervention after Boohoo confirmed it will close its national distribution centre in the town, putting more than 1,200 jobs a...

www.burnleyexpress.net

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CIDSE @cidse.bsky.social · 23d

📌 SAVE THE DATE
Let’s get together to demand:
📢 Accountability for human rights violation and pollution
🫴 Protection for communities from corporate harm.
✊ Rights for people, rules for business.
That’s why we’re joining the #March4Rights to push the EU #BackToTheFuture.

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Clean Clothes Campaign @cleanclothes.bsky.social · 24d

A the #UNRBHR2025 Forum in Bangkok? Join us:
- "Resilience we should all practice in difficult times: Lessons from Garment Workers in Bangladesh and Myanmar". lnkd.in/esFjHAZT
- "A Global Severance Guarantee Fund is the Solution to the Fashion Industry 'Cut & Run' Business model". lnkd.in/e6e86kkK

Clean Clothes Campaign @cleanclothes.bsky.social · 26d

This week luxury group Richemont held its shareholder meeting. Our members Public Eye & Campagna Abiti Puliti protested together with the SUDD Cobas union to urge the management to resolve the case of the 6 Pakistani workers who were fired in Florence.
Read more: cleanclothes.org/news/2025/ex...

Woman with megaphone in front of people with signs about Montblanc and Made in Italy.

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Jasmin Malik Chua @jasminchua.com · 28d

Two recent cases in Myanmar and Cambodia highlight a chilling trend of suppliers using criminalization to silence labor rights defenders in the region.

Retaliation on Unionists in Southeast Asia Shows ‘Worrying Corporate Backslide on Human Rights’

Two recent cases in Myanmar and Cambodia highlight a chilling trend of suppliers using criminalization to silence labor rights defenders in the region.

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Clean Clothes Campaign @cleanclothes.bsky.social · 28d

Today, our partners Home Based Women Workers Federation and NTUF and the Ali Enterprises Factory Fire Affectees Association commemorate those who died in the horrible fire in Karachi, Pakistan, 13 years ago. Let the world never forget!

Clean Clothes Campaign @cleanclothes.bsky.social · 28d

Today marks 13 years since the deadly Ali Enterprises fire in a Pakistani garment factory. 250+ workers died in a factory that was certified as safe by social auditors mere weeks before. Today, we remember the tragedy of their deaths & the plight of their families. cleanclothes.org/news/2025/so...

Pakistani women in front of a banner with photos of people who died in the Ali Enterprises fire lighting candles

Clean Clothes Campaign @cleanclothes.bsky.social · 29d

Take action now to support the workers here: www.labourstartcampaigns.net/show_campaig...

Sri Lanka: NEXT shuts down the country's only unionised garment factory - by WhatsApp

Please support this LabourStart urgent action campaign and spread the word.

www.labourstartcampaigns.net

Clean Clothes Campaign @cleanclothes.bsky.social · 29d

After scandalously closing their wholly owned & only unionised factory in Sri Lanka & forcing workers to resign, Next now is stopping payments of 16 workers who refused to resign & therefore are still employed. In case one thought things couldn't get more outrageous: cleanclothes.org/news/2025/ne...

Protest in Sri Lanka: people behind a banner with a fist and text in Sinhala and Tamil as well as in English: Our tribute to you, the employees who challenges the aggressive Next company

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Clean Clothes Campaign @cleanclothes.bsky.social · Sep 9

He is not the only one, who Nike denies justice to. The workers of the Violet Apparel factory, who made clothes for Nike when their factory suddenly closed in 2020 without paying their severance, are still fighting for justice.
Read their recent appeal to Nike here: cleanclothes.org/news/2025/ni...

Nike ignores unpaid workers’ appeal on five year anniversary of factory closure

1 July 2025 marked five years since the Violet Apparel factory in Cambodia closed suddenly, without giving the workers notice or paying severance. An appeal to Nike by these workers went unanswered.

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Clean Clothes Campaign @cleanclothes.bsky.social · Sep 9

He felt forced to flee abroad. Five years on, Nike finally agreed to pay Kyaw San Oo, but only gave him 59,580 baht (around 1600-1800 USD depending on exchange rate) - a pittance if you consider he and his wife lost their jobs and country of residence and have not been able to find new work since.

Clean Clothes Campaign @cleanclothes.bsky.social · Sep 9

When in 2020, Nike’s Thai supplier forced workers to sign forms claiming they were “volunteering” for unpaid leave, he resisted. Most workers were harassed until they gave in. Kyaw San Oo stood up for his fellow workers & helped them learn about their rights. The factory reported him to the police.

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Clean Clothes Campaign @cleanclothes.bsky.social · Sep 9

Today, Nike has its shareholder meeting & will tell investors about its profits. What it'll be leaving out: how it made these profits over the backs of unpaid workers. Kyaw San Oo, one of these workers, was retaliated against for speaking up against wage theft: cleanclothes.org/news/2025/ap...

Appeal from Kyaw San Oo to Nike and the Fair Labor Association

Former Hong Seng employee Kyaw San Oo addresses Nike and the FLA about the insufficiency of the compensation he received.

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