by | Oct 20, 2015 | education, Resources, Resources - Living wage, Resources - Worker safety
Step Into Her Trainers is a teaching pack aimed at Fashion & Textiles related courses, Citizenship, and Geography, at KS4, A-level and BTEC. This pack has been produced for the Playfair 2012 campaign, calling for better conditions for workers in sportswear and merchandise factories worldwide in the lead up to the Olympics in London 2012.
It has been published by Labour Behind the Label’s Fashioning an Ethical Industry project that aims to ensure future decision makers are informed and equipped to improve the conditions of millions of garment workers worldwide.
Labour Behind the Label (1st published 2010, revised 2011) Step Into Her Trainers (Bristol, UK 36 Pages).
Download here: Step Into her Trainers 2011
by | Oct 20, 2015 | Resources, Resources - Living wage, Resources - Worker safety
To learn more about sweatshops in the garment industry, students can stage their own sweatshop for charity, living through the experience of working in an exploitative garment factory in their own school, just for one day.
The students plan and lead their own project, deciding how to stage the one-day event, what product to manufacture, what rules to abide by (for example, ‘no talking’, ‘no toilet breaks’, which is common in the sweatshop world), and how to sell the product they have produced afterwards. All profits from this event go to Labour Behind the Label to support garment workers’ struggles for better working conditions in the real world.
Download resources:
Sweatshop Relay intro presentation
sweatshop relay pack for email
Sweatshop Relay Certificate 2015
by | Oct 15, 2015 | Resources, Resources - Living wage, Resources - Worker safety
The London 2012 Olympics provides a fantastic opportunity for pupils in the 9-14 age group to learn more about who makes the sportswear and sporting merchandise they buy. Fair’s Fair brings alive the concepts of human rights, equality and fairness by telling stories of people who make these goods in poorer countries, often working with few rights, and for poverty wages.
The pack was developed through involvement with teacher members from Anti-Slavery International, ATL, NASUWT and NUT working in collaboration with the TUC. Lesson ideas and activities make links between different subjects including art and design, citizenship, English, geography and maths.
The pack includes:
10 lesson plans
14 activity sheets
4 photo cards
A DVD made with pupils from the Cherwell School and Oaks Park High School
By using this pack, pupils can develop their understanding of why decent working conditions are part of the United Nations Millenium Development Goals to end poverty, and take practical actions to help make the world a fairer place.
You can download the free pdf of this pack by clicking here:Fairs-fair_booklet
We recommend a minimum donation of £5. You can donate here.
by | Oct 15, 2015 | action updates, Resources, Resources - Living wage, Resources - Worker safety
Find out what Labour Behind the Label has been up to in our Action Update.
This edition includes campaign victory for Indonesian garment workers, a focus on the Accord on Fire and Building Safety in Bangladesh, and an insight into campaigning post-Rana Plaza.
Download it here: Action Update Winter 2013
by | Oct 15, 2015 | action updates, Resources, Resources - Living wage, Resources - Worker safety
Find out what Labour Behind the Label has been up to in our bi-annual Action Update.
This edition includes our demands to Adidas to play fair and pay fair as the World Cup approaches, mass faintings in Cambodian garment factories, an update on our campaign for compensation for Rana Plaza victims, and the experiences of our Regional Coordinator volunteers.
Download it here: Action Update Summer 2014
by | Oct 12, 2015 | action updates, Resources, Resources - Living wage, Resources - Worker safety
Find out what Labour Behind the Label has been up to in our bi-annual Action Update.
This edition includes an account of Cambodian Adidas worker Eam Rin’s visit to the UK, a look at union organising in Bangladesh, artists reactions to Rana Plaza, and campaign success as Matalan finally caves in to pressure and donates to the Rana Plaza compensation fund.
Read the Action Update here: Action Update Winter 2014
