Links
Find here a wealth of links to related campaigns, organisations and charities dedicated to working on similar issues to Labour Behind the Label.
The National Labor Committee
The National Labor Committee site includes lots of information. It has a report on factories and US corporations in China, as well as country reports, particularly in Central and Southern America.
Sweatshop Watch
Sweatshop Watch serves low-wage workers nationally and globally, with a focus on eliminating sweatshop exploitation in California's garment industry. It is a coalition of US organisations.
Senser.com
Human rights for workers, including information on the globalisation debate.
BehindTheLabel.org
BehindTheLabel.org is a multimedia news website covering the stories of people fighting for fundamental human and labor rights against the goliath global clothing industry. It is organised by UNITE, the US textile workers union
Global Exchange
Global Exchange is a large membership-based international human rights organization dedicated to promoting social, economic and environmental justice around the world.
CorpWatch
CorpWatch investigates and exposes corporate violations of human rights, environmental crimes, fraud and corruption around the world. The site contains a lengthy and detailed report on factory conditions inside Vietnamese factories producing for Nike.
Clean Clothes Campaign
The Clean Clothes Campaign is the international network of which LBL is the UK platform.
Maquila Solidarity Network
The Maquila Solidarity Network is the Canadian equivalent to the UK's Labour Behind the Label
No Sweat
No Sweat is a UK-based activist organisation, campaigning against sweatshops
TGWU: Region 4 (Wales) , Region 5 (Midlands) and Region 7 (Scotland)
The TGWU is the Transport and General Workers' Union. It is focused on winning for its members in the workplace.
Community
Community is a new union for life that serves its members both at work and where they live.
Unison
Unison is the trade union for people delivering public services. LBL members include: SW/UWE, East Midlands Region, Pembrokeshire and Derwen NHS Trust, BCWVO Branch, Cearphilly Branch, Northern Ireland Region, North Somerset Council, South Gloucester.
Tearfund
Tearfund aims to relieve suffereing and offer hope, transforming the lives of some of the world's poorest people.
GMB: London and Lancashire regions
The GMB is Britain's General Union, comprising of over 100 smaller unions. It has over 600,000 members working in every part of the economy.
Women Working Worldwide
Women Working Worldwide is a UK based organisation which works with an international network of women workers' organisations and women's projects within trade unions.
War On Want
War on Want fights poverty in developing countries in partnership and solidarity with people affected by globalisation. They campaign for workers' rights and against the root causes of global poverty, inequality and injustice
Oxfam
Oxfam International is a confederation of 12 organizations working together with over 3,000 partners in more than 100 countries to find lasting solutions to poverty, suffering and injustice.
National Group on Homeworking
The National Group on Homeworking aims to improve the working conditions of all homeworkers so that homeworking becomes a real employment option for those who wish to work at home in the UK.
HomeWorkers Worldwide (UK Centre for Homenet)
HomeWorkers Worldwide is part of the international solidarity network of homebased workers' organisations and others who support the rights of homebased workers to decent working and living conditions.
Central America Womens' Network
CAWN is a UK-based network of women united by a commitment to women's human and labour rights worldwide and a desire to support, publicise and learn from the struggles of women in Central America in the defence of their rights.
Ethical Consumer
Ethical Consumer magazine publishes buyer's guides designed to help you find the products which best fit with your own values.
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