by | Jun 18, 2020 | action updates, Blog, Fundraising, Living wage, News, Worker safety
by | Jan 28, 2020 | action updates, Fundraising, Living wage, News, Resources, Resources - Living wage, Resources - Worker safety, Worker safety
Find our what Labour Behind the Label have been up to in our bi-annual Action Update.
This issue gives you an overview of our latest campaigns to hold the garment industry to account. There is information on our sweatshop-free school uniforms campaign, calling on Trutex to operate with more transparency, a look at fast fashion giant Boohoo and poverty pay, and an update on the situation in Bangladesh and the violent repression of garment workers who protested peacefully for higher wages. There is also an update on some of our urgent appeals work, including campaigning for workers who produced for Burberry and Uniqlo to be paid the wages they are owed.
Read it here: Action Update: Volume 29
by | Dec 20, 2017 | action updates, Blog
Find our what Labour Behind the Label have been up to in our bi-annual Action Update.
2017 has been a busy and important year for Labour Behind the Label. As we respond to external factors around funding we continue to make impact and push for change for the workers who make our clothes.
Here you will read about the Change Your Shoes campaign where you will be provided with a round-up of our work changing how the shoe industry operates. You will read updates on the most pressing Urgent Appeals we are focusing on – in Cambodia and Turkey where workers are not being listened to and refused their rights. We are doing all we can to change this.
Also in this update you will hear about ways to get involved in with fundraising – at a time when it is needed most. Donate to support our Urgent Appeal work, or sign up to raise awareness and funds through our Six Items Challenge.
Read it here: Action Update Winter 2017
by | Jan 4, 2017 | action updates, Blog, Resources - Shoes
Find our what Labour Behind the Label have been up to in our bi-annual Action Update.
Since our last update two of our projects have come to an end and we’ll share some of the successes that happened as a result. Our transparency campaign is really developing now, read on to find out how you can get involved, by either joining our army of activists or supporting our crowdfunder. Also in this update you will read about the landmark compensation arrangement which was reached on the 4th anniversary of the deadly Pakistan factory fire and an update on the Chinese activists who were charged and found guilty of “gathering a crowd to disturb social order”.
Read it here: Action Update Winter 2016
by | Sep 15, 2016 | action updates, Campaigns, Fundraising, News, Resources, Shoes
Find our what Labour Behind the Label have been up to in our bi-annual Action Update.
In this update we will update you on our transparency campaign and share with you some exciting updates about our Cambodia project where workers have gathered footage which shows what it’s like to work and live as garment workers. The Change your Shoes project has released four reports of which the India report was researched by our friends Home Workers Worldwide and co-written with LBL, and highlights the exploitation of women working in shoe production.
Read it here: Action Update Summer 2016
