#ShareTheRisk video: A Factory Perspective

Watch the #sharetherisk video (also linked to on the left) produced by the Manufactured Podcast, which outlines how brand order volume changes impact factories and translate to lower wages. When brands have all the power to order and cancel products but none of the risks, everyone else loses.

Changemakers in Human Rights

From the Fashion Institute of Technology Sustainable Business and Design Conference: Changemakers in Action, this video features clips from and discussion on the film The True Cost. It also delves into each presenter’s personal inspiration for doing this work and inspires the viewer to continue this momentum.

Good Clothes, Fair Pay: Living Wages in the Global Fashion Industry

A panel discussion and Q&A with industry experts during Fashion Revolution Week.

Maeve Galvin (moderator): Global Policy Director at Fashion Revolution Wiranta Ginting, Coordinator at Asia Floor Wage Allowance Lara Wolters, Member of European Parliament Nasreen Sheikh, Founder of Empowerment Collective Marissa Nuncio, Director of Garment Worker Center LA Mario Iveković - Clean Clothes Campaign & Novi Sindikat Julia Kirschner, Social Impact Manager at Armed Angels Martina Marekova Kuipers, Coordinator at Fashion Revolution Slovakia

Find out more at www.goodclothesfairpay.eu

The #LowestWageChallenge asks brands to share their lowest wages and have them 3rd party verified.

“The #PayUp campaign formed in March 2020 out of the fashion industry’s catastrophic decision to refuse payment for completed clothing orders heading into the COVID-19 pandemic. Now they are focusing on a long-term campaign for systemic reform to advance labor rights.”

“Clean Clothes Campaign is a global network dedicated to improving working conditions and empowering workers in the global garment and sportswear industries. They have extensive news and up-to-date research available on their site.”

“The Asia Floor Wage Alliance (AFWA) was founded in 2007 as an Asian labor-led global labor and social alliance across garment producing countries (such as India, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Cambodia, Bangladesh) and consumer regions (USA and Europe) for addressing poverty level wages, gender discrimination, and freedom of association in global garment production networks.”

“Garment Worker Center is a worker rights organization leading an anti-sweatshop movement to improve conditions for tens of thousands of Los Angeles garment workers.”

“Awaj Foundation is a grassroots labor rights NGO with over 600,000 worker members across Bangladesh. Through our projects, services, research and advocacy, we aim to empower workers and enable harmonious industrial relations. We particularly focus on supporting women workers, because we believe that leadership from women can transform our society towards greater equity and justice.”

“Founded by singer-songwriter and activist Annie Lennox in 2008, The Circle is a unique organisation inspired by the notion that when women come together and organise, they can be a powerful force for change. We are a global network of women from all walks of life and all backgrounds who have something in common: the awareness that we still do not live in a world where women and girls have equal rights and equal opportunities. History shows us that when the collective power of women come together positive change can be achieved.”

“Labour Behind the Label is a UK-based not-for-profit co-operative organisation with an office in Easton, Bristol, which campaigns for workers' rights in the clothing industry. It is the platform of the international Clean Clothes Campaign in the United Kingdom. LBL's members include trade unions and their local branches, consumer organisations, campaign groups, and charities.”

Fair Wear Foundation’s overall vision of success is a world where workers in the garment industry see their rights to safe, dignified, properly paid employment realised. To achieve this goal, it is necessary that:

• Brands continuously improve their internal mechanisms, including their purchasing practices

• Brands – in cooperation with their suppliers and trade unions – systematically and effectively prevent, mitigate and remediate risks and violations of labour rights throughout their supply chains

• Policy makers and regulatory oversight organisations create an enabling environment for the effective enforcement of labour rights

Fair Wear promotes a supply chain approach of ‘shared responsibility’ to social compliance in the global garment sector. We believe the management decisions of clothing brands have an enormous influence on factory conditions.

“The Worker Rights Consortium (WRC) is an independent labor rights monitoring organization. We investigate working conditions in factories around the globe. Our purpose is to document and combat sweatshop conditions; identify and expose the practices of global brands and retailers that perpetuate labor rights abuses; and protect the rights of workers who make apparel and other products.”

“United Students Against Sweatshops (USAS, pronounced 'you-sas') is the nation’s largest youth-led, student labor campaign organization with affiliated locals on over 150 campuses. USAS chapters run both local and internationally-coordinated campaigns for economic justice in partnership with worker and community organizations.”