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Impact Report 2020/21

Impact Report 2020/21

by | Dec 16, 2021 | Fundraising, reports

This report looks at the impact that Labour Behind the Label has had during the financial year 2020/21.  A great deal of our work shifted to focus on the appalling negative impacts of Covid-19 – the virus itself as well as the resultant loss of wages, jobs, benefits and ongoing instability in the garment industry. We held big campaigns and lobbied brands to act.  As we are responding to the ongoing Covid-19 crisis, worked on new and emerging human rights violations in the garment industry. There is unquestionable evidence that the fashion industry is profiting from and complicit in Uyghur forced labour in the Xinjiang region of China. We reponded to the military coup in Myanmar in February 2021, by calling on brands to publicly condemn the coup. We continued to campaign for greater transparency in the garment industry, and for living wages. We undertook 16 solidarity cases, and saw worker wins in Thailand, Romania and Myanmar. 
Read it here: Impact Report 2020/21
Report: Brands are Pushing Garment Workers to Breaking Point during the Pandemic

Report: Brands are Pushing Garment Workers to Breaking Point during the Pandemic

by | Jul 2, 2021 | Blog, reports

In a hard-hitting new research report, Clean Clothes Campaign shows that H&M, Nike and Primark have driven factory workers in their supply chains in Bangladesh, Cambodia and Indonesia into desperation during the COVID-19 pandemic. Interviews conducted with 49 garment workers in these countries demonstrate that the Coronavirus-induced crisis continues to have a devastating impact on the wages, working conditions, and labour rights of garment workers.

Over half of the workers interviewed for the report, “Breaking Point: wage theft, violence and excessive workloads are pushing garment workers to breaking point during the pandemic”, indicated to the researchers that they experienced wage cuts during the pandemic. Almost 70% of the interviewed workers have endured periods in which they were not paid their normal, pre-pandemic wages. All of these workers were surviving on poverty wages before the pandemic, and now it has become even harder for them to make ends meet. The research shows that this is happening to workers in all three brands’ supply chains.

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Report: Out of the Shadows

Report: Out of the Shadows

by | Sep 23, 2020 | Blog, reports

This short report is designed as a guide to the Fashion Checker tool (FashionChecker.org) and highlights what is missing in regards to brand commitments and practices in paying a living wage to workers in their supply chains. The report is based on research undertaken in 2019 and early 2020.

Despite sweeping promises made by brands, the findings detailed in the report reveal the stark contrast between claims of fashion brands and the reality faced by workers in production countries.

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Report: Un(der)paid in the pandemic: An estimate of what the garment industry owes its workers

Report: Un(der)paid in the pandemic: An estimate of what the garment industry owes its workers

by | Aug 10, 2020 | Blog, reports

Millions of garment workers around the world have not received their regular wages, or have not been paid at all, for months since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, shows a new report by Clean Clothes Campaign, launched today.

The report analyses nonpayment of wages to garment workers during the months of March, April and May resulting from order cancellations by apparel brands, unpaid leave, and state-sanctioned wage cuts during the COVID-19 crisis. Based on a review of news reports and information from worker organisations, with the support of the Worker Rights Consortium, we estimate that across South and Southeast Asia garment workers have received 38% less than their regular income. In some regions in India, this number rises above 50%.

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Report: Boohoo & COVID-19: The people behind the profit

by | Jun 30, 2020 | Blog, News, reports, Resources

Emerging evidence indicates that conditions in Leicester’s factories, primarily producing for Boohoo, are putting workers at risk of COVID-19 infections and fatalities.

Factories in Leicester are no stranger to illegal working conditions, with numerous reports over the years showing low pay – as little as £3 – and blatant intimidation of vulnerable workers. Now however, emerging evidence indicates that conditions in Leicester’s factories, primarily producing for Boohoo, are putting workers at risk of COVID-19 infection and fatality as some factories have remained open for production during the lockdown, whilst others are now re-opening.

Published June 2020.

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Report: Who will bail out the workers who make our clothes?

Report: Who will bail out the workers who make our clothes?

by | Mar 31, 2020 | Blog, reports

The economic repercussions of the coronavirus pandemic are colossal in scale and global in scope. The world’s wealthy countries are poised to spend trillions of dollars to shore up the income of their workers and to rescue their corporations. A vital question remains unanswered: who is going to rescue the workers who toil in the global supply chains of many of those corporations? These workers, like ones who make the clothes and shoes we wear, are among the hardest hit by the economic catastrophe of Covid-19.

Published: March 2020

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