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Community is built on a daily basis through practice. There are examples that show us the way – so don’t give in to despair but organise.

We’ve investigated NEXT’s argument for leaving over 1400 workers jobless. Find out why we need to stop NEXT driving down wages and killing union jobs in Sri Lanka.

We’ve traced the companies involved in making three fashion products sold on Amazon, talked to the workers who made them, and are calling on Amazon to do more to protect worker rights in seller supply chains.

Joint statement in response to NEXT’s closure of the unionised Katunayake factory in Sri Lanka.

A shareholder has written a scathing open letter to NEXT following the closure of its Katunayake garment factory in Sri Lanka

Garment workers in Leicester are still struggling while the industry is trying to rebuild. Are UK brands ready to commit to good jobs and fair wages?

Activists visit the Bangladesh High Commission to call for rights, wages and power for Bangladesh garment workers.

Garment workers cannot be left to pay the price for Trump’s tariff war – brands must do their part!

Through the story of worker struggle at Polo Composite Industries in Bangladesh, we look at legal persecution tools that are used to repress union formation.

Labour Behind the Label reaffirms our support for Palestine and condemnation of Israel’s genocidal violence.

Defend the right to strike – an appeal for international solidarity from Mont Blanc workers!

Our campaign to drop unjust criminal charges against garment workers in Bangladesh who took part in wage protests last year, is making progress. Out of the 36 legal cases of repression we have been tracking, three have now been dropped.

40,000 workers in Bangladesh remain at risk of arrest due to baseless criminal cases filed by factory owners during the 2023 wage demonstration. Read our brand tracker to see which brands are complicit in this repression.

Twelve years ago, on 11 September 2012, over 250 people were killed in the garment industry’s most deadly factory fire everin Karachi, Pakistan. Our commitment is to ensure this can never happen again.

Law makers in Pakistan are attempting to revise the labour law in Sindh and Punjab provinces, making the third-party contracting system legal and undermining decades of worker progress.

Following the mass movement to overthrow the authoritarian government in Bangladesh, we celebrate the student victory and mourn those who lost their lives. Fashion brands must ensure workers receive their full wages in the coming months, as Bangladesh reforms.

Activists took to the streets to protest the brutal crackdown on workers’ rights unfolding in Bangladesh in response to protests to increase the minimum wage.

While unprecedented progress has been made to make factories safer, the brutal crackdown still unfolding in response to workers’ struggle to increase the minimum wage has shown that apparel brands producing in Bangladesh are still failing to ensure that the basic rights of their workers are respected.

The story of migrant workers facing ‘superexploitation’, who arrive in the UK on student or care work visas with the promise of employment, yet find themselves trapped in garment industry jobs with no rights.

VK Garment worker Tesco mums speak out: “Since being fired, I’ve become destitute, struggling to house and feed my family. I have a two year old boy. He’s my world.” Take action today.

Former workers of Neo Trend factory remain empty-handed after 14-month-long engagement with Ethical Trading Initiative and member brand Next

Wai Full garments in Cambodia was forced to close in the pandemic without paying workers full wages and severance. Over $500,000 is owed to workers. Brands must step in.

Labour Behind the Label is campaigning in support of a wage increase in Bangladesh and Bangladeshi unions’ 23000 taka minimum wage demand.

Workers from Bangladeshi garment factories tell their stories and how they are seeing climate change impact their lives.

Today we mark the International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia, Intersexphobia and Transphobia (IADHOBIT) with the online launch of our zine – Queer Labour Behind the Label: a collection of stories from LGBTQI+ garment workers from Cambodia and Indonesia.

International Workers Memorial Day this year comes at the end of a week that started with the 10th anniversary of the Rana Plaza mass industrial homicide in Bangladesh. This is what we did this week.

Despite publicly supporting calls for a compensation fund to be set up for migrant construction workers in Qatar, official FIFA sponsor adidas is currently under fire from labour rights advocates for persistent wage theft, union busting and mass lay-offs in its own supply chain.

Applications are now open for those interested in becoming trustees of the Labour Behind the Label Trust.

Labour Behind the Label supports the unions, who condemn the government’s disregard for the voice of trade unions and demand the Labour Ministry calls for an immediate meeting of the National Labour Advisory Council.

We have an exciting opportunity for a designer to work on our new project to share LGBTQI worker stories.

Workers from a towel and linen supplier in Karachi are fighting for their rights after being dismissed for taking part in union activities.

Wage-theft is rife in Adidas’ supply chain. Pressure is mounting as activists across the world are calling on Adidas to sign a negotiated binding agreement on wages and severance.

Trade unions and worker rights organizations, including the Clean Clothes Campaign, Labour behind the Label, Maquila Solidarity Network, War on Want and Workers United have written a letter expressing their solidarity with the people of Sri Lanka.

A worker who migrated to Leicester join the garment factories, tells his story of working in a UK factory.

NEXT supplier Neo Trend in Turkey closed down in the middle of the pandemic and the factory owner fled the country, leaving workers with nothing. The 104 workers who were employed there are calling for justice.

We are calling on Matalan to put their family values into action and ensure that Ramatex pays Violet Apparel workers full compensation without delay.