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Report: Adidas and Nike pay record-breaking amounts to footballers, but deny decent wages to women stitching their shirts

Report: Adidas and Nike pay record-breaking amounts to footballers, but deny decent wages to women stitching their shirts

Report: Adidas and Nike pay record-breaking amounts to footballers, but deny decent wages to women stitching their shirts

While millions of people are getting ready to cheer their favorite teams during the Football World Cup, a report by Éthique sur l’étiquette and Clean Clothes Campaign, ‘Foul Play’, reveals that adidas and Nike, major sponsors of the global event, pay poverty wages to the thousands of women in their supply chain that sew the football shirts and shoes of players and supporters.

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Published June 2018.

Report: Let’s Clean Up Fashion

Report: Let’s Clean Up Fashion

Report: Let’s clean up fashion

The state of pay behind the UK high street.

“My concern is not that there are too many sweatshops, but that there are too few,” says economist Jeffrey Sachs. In a sense he, he has a point. The fashion industry has the potential to lift millions of people in low-income countries out of poverty, and working conditions are not going to improve overnight. But it shouldn’t hurt this much.

The global garment workforce in 2006 is tired, underpaid and unable to benefit from globalisation. Earlier this year in Bangladesh, where garment sector wages have fallen in real terms by half in the past ten years, workers finally snapped, protesting, rioting, striking, and even setting light to factories to express their desperation at wages as low as £7 per month. The number of legal challenges and protests by Chinese workers is also on the up.

What do you think is a fair wage for the people who sew your clothes? Imagine you were a worker – what would you consider decent? The right of workers to earn a living wage is enshrined in the codes of conduct that most UK fashion companies have pledged to implement throughout their supply chains, yet as the evidence on the ground shows – and as many companies admitted to us in the research for this report – few garment workers actually earn enough to make ends meet and have a decent quality of life.

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Published 2006.

Report: No Excuses for Homework

Report: No Excuses for Homework

Report: No Excuses for Homework

Working conditions in the Indonesian leather and footwear sector.

Indonesia is the fourth largest footwear manufacturer worldwide after China, India, and Vietnam, producing one billion pairs of shoes in 2015 which equals a world share of 4.4 %. It is hence worth taking a look at Indonesia to learn more about the social and ecological footprint of leather shoes worn in Europe. But despite some initial achievements and the existence of considerable legislation, working conditions in the Indonesian leather and footwear sector leave much to be desired. This is the result of report published today by SÜDWIND and INKOTA.

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Published March 2017.

Report: Rana Plaza Three Years On: Compensation, Justice and Workers’ Safety

Report: Rana Plaza Three Years On: Compensation, Justice and Workers’ Safety

Report: Rana Plaza Three Years On

Compensation, Justice and Workers’ Safety

On the eve of the third year anniversary of the Rana Plaza tragedy a new report has been published by the Clean Clothes Campaign and the International Labor Rights forum. The report provides an update on the key developments and outcomes of the three main areas of focus following the collapse: the Rana Plaza Arrangement; the Bangladesh Fire and Building safety Accord and to improve the legal climate regarding Freedom of Association.

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Published in 2016.