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📢 A worker-led network of unions and labour orgs fighting to change the working conditions in the fashion industry cleanclothes.org

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Clean Clothes Campaign @cleanclothes.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Our new report with @publiceye.ch shows that fashion brands have over time added ever bolder sustainability promises to their websites, but have not increased sourcing prices. Taken inflation into account the value they put on a t-short is 50% less than 25 years ago. cleanclothes.org/news/2026/fa...
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Clean Clothes Campaign @cleanclothes.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
CCC Italy released an insightful report today about the labour conditions at certified 'green' factories. You can read it here: cleanclothes.org/file-reposit... And learn more in the webinar they're organising on 19 February at 11am CET! Registration at: eu01web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Webinar February 19th - 11am CET / 4pm BDT. Green industry, grey realities. Between LEED's factories and Just Transition: Pathways for the RMG Sector in Bangladesh.
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Clean Clothes Campaign @cleanclothes.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Missed our NYC Climate Week panel on workers rights & the climate crisis last month? No worry, it's now available as a podcast. Listen in to focus on those central to this industry, who are too often forgotten in these discussions: the workers. Listen here: open.spotify.com/episode/5tSn...
Sonia Mistry, Solidarity Center: For meaningful climate action that truly protects workers, we must recognise the vital role of organised labour.
 
Collective bargaining isn’t just a tool for fair wages and safer workplaces. It’s a proven strategy to reduce heat stress and other climate-related harms. 

Local solutions led by
 workers, connected
through global
labour solidarity,
 can accelerate 
climate adaptation
 across supply
 chains.
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Clean Clothes Campaign @cleanclothes.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
🥵 Too Hot To Fashion: On 25 Sept, during Climate Week NYC, we hosted an action-focused dialogue that brought climate justice & labour rights to the forefront. Shortly after the event we also launched a position paper on heat & garment workers’ rights calling for action: cleanclothes.org/heatposition
Climate change is already costing workers their incomes: when factories flood, when production slows, when they fall sick from extreme heat, or when suppliers relocate without warning. These are not abstract risks. They are everyday realities. 

That’s why we’re calling for a severance guarantee fund,
 with brands contributing
 to a shared safety net.
If we’re talking about
 climate adaptation,
 then access to
 healthcare,
social protection,
 and income
 security must
 be part of
 the plan.

For garment workers, stress doesn't stop at the factory gates - it follows them home. 
They live in overcrowded, windowless rooms without cooling or drainage, making them the first and hardest hit by climate disasters. 

When their homes flood, they miss work, lose pay, and face rising health costs.

If we're serious about 
climate justice,
 we must invest
 in solutions that
 protect workers
 both on and off
 the factory floor.
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Clean Clothes Campaign @cleanclothes.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
ASICS has been standing by idly while one of its suppliers in Cambodia jailed a worker leader on fake charges & refused to compensate him or let him back to his original job. The one promise they made, that he would get his old job back, was broken immediately. cleanclothes.org/news/2025/as...
meme showing a blue pill saying: compensate a worker leader who was jailed for organising and a red pill saying: literally nothing. Below a hand with "ASICS" on it among red pills
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Clean Clothes Campaign @cleanclothes.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
A the #UNRBHR2025 Forum in Bangkok? Join us: - "Resilience we should all practice in difficult times: Lessons from Garment Workers in Bangladesh and Myanmar". lnkd.in/esFjHAZT - "A Global Severance Guarantee Fund is the Solution to the Fashion Industry 'Cut & Run' Business model". lnkd.in/e6e86kkK
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Clean Clothes Campaign @cleanclothes.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
This week luxury group Richemont held its shareholder meeting. Our members Public Eye & Campagna Abiti Puliti protested together with the SUDD Cobas union to urge the management to resolve the case of the 6 Pakistani workers who were fired in Florence. Read more: cleanclothes.org/news/2025/ex...
Woman with megaphone in front of people with signs about Montblanc and Made in Italy.
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Clean Clothes Campaign @cleanclothes.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Today, our partners Home Based Women Workers Federation and NTUF and the Ali Enterprises Factory Fire Affectees Association commemorate those who died in the horrible fire in Karachi, Pakistan, 13 years ago. Let the world never forget!
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Clean Clothes Campaign @cleanclothes.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Today marks 13 years since the deadly Ali Enterprises fire in a Pakistani garment factory. 250+ workers died in a factory that was certified as safe by social auditors mere weeks before. Today, we remember the tragedy of their deaths & the plight of their families. cleanclothes.org/news/2025/so...
Pakistani women in front of a banner with photos of people who died in the Ali Enterprises fire lighting candles
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Clean Clothes Campaign @cleanclothes.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
After scandalously closing their wholly owned & only unionised factory in Sri Lanka & forcing workers to resign, Next now is stopping payments of 16 workers who refused to resign & therefore are still employed. In case one thought things couldn't get more outrageous: cleanclothes.org/news/2025/ne...
Protest in Sri Lanka: people behind a banner with a fist and text in Sinhala and Tamil as well as in English: Our tribute to you, the employees who challenges the aggressive Next company
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Clean Clothes Campaign @cleanclothes.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
From 16-21 September we'll be showcasing our 35 years of solidarity with garment workers and the strength of the Clean Clothes Campaign network in an exhibition in the Bangkok Art & Cultural Centre. If you're in Bangkok that week, for the #UNRBHR2025 or any other reason, come by! www.bacc.or.th/en/
Exhibition: Building Power, Fighting Back. 10AM - 8pm    16 - 21 Sep
Corner Space, 1/F,
Bangkok Art & Cultural Centre (BACC)
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Clean Clothes Campaign @cleanclothes.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
Planning to be at the #UNRBHR2025 Forum in Bangkok this month? Join us for our session "Resilience we should all practice in difficult times: Lessons from Garment Workers in Bangladesh and Myanmar". Join in person or online. Find out more here: www.rbhrforum.com/resilience-i... #BizHumanRights
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Clean Clothes Campaign @cleanclothes.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
ASICS seems to think it is OK to jail a worker for starting a union & that it can get away with not compensating that worker for violating his basic rights. To add insult to injury he is now forced to work in an outbuilding, away from other workers. Read more: cleanclothes.org/news/2025/as...
Chan spraying paint on wooden panels in a shed
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Clean Clothes Campaign @cleanclothes.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
Workers who made clothes for Victoria's Secret, Lane Bryant, Huber and Triumph have been fighting for the 7.6 million USD they are owed for over five years now. When these brands finally ensure these workers are paid, by paying themselves or ensuring the business owner, Robert Ng, compensates them?
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Clean Clothes Campaign @cleanclothes.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
ASICS seems to think it's fine to jail a worker for 6 months just for organising. Chea Chan, a union leader at Wing Star Cambodia, is "back at work" - he's made to work in an outbuilding away from other workers. ASICS didn't compensate him for his plight & let this violation of basic rights persist.
Asics: Make it right!
ASICS must ensure that: 
Chan is paid compensation for the time he was in jail and fully reinstated at his job. 
the 20,000 workers of the Wing Star factory have the right to stand up for their own rights and can work in decent working conditions.
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Clean Clothes Campaign @cleanclothes.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
One year ago, students and other protesters managed to oust the ruling leader Sheikh Hasina. Today, we remember the many people who were killed in the movement for change by the ruthless repression by the Hasina government. Since then, an interim government is at work to build a new Bangladesh.
A large mass of people in the street waving Bangladeshi flags.
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Clean Clothes Campaign @cleanclothes.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
By including football teams in the illegal settlements, the IFA is directly complicit in & legitimises the violent and illegal theft of Palestinian land to give way for these settlements, which form the infrastructure of Israel's occupation & apartheid regime.
In Feb 2024 Reebok was announced as a BDS target, after it was reported that the brand had signed a two-year deal with the Israel Football Association (IFA), which includes teams based in the illegal settlements in Palestine.
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Clean Clothes Campaign @cleanclothes.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
Since then, Reebok created confusion about its position, removing its logo from the IFA website, having players use old PUMA jerseys and refusing to answer questions from advocates.⁠ ⁠Last week, BDS reported that Reebok's logo re-appeared on the IFA website. So it is time for action!!⁠ ⁠
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Clean Clothes Campaign @cleanclothes.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
📢 WEEK of ACTION! 📢⁠ ⁠Earlier this year, Reebok signed a two-year deal with the Israel Football Association (IFA), which includes teams based in the illegal settlements in Palestine. Reebok became a target of the BDS Movement.⁠ Take action: antisweatshopagainstapartheid.wordpress.com/reebok-action/
TAKE ACTION TO DEMAND REEBOK  WITHDRAWS ITS SPONSORSHIP OF THE ISRAEL FOOTBALL ASSOCIATION. 4-8 August
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Clean Clothes Campaign @cleanclothes.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
We're urging Nike to: - Recognise their responsibility for the Violet Apparel workers and ensure they are fully compensated - Ramp up the compensation to the Hong Seng workers to ensure they receive full justice - Sign the PayYourWorkers agreement
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Clean Clothes Campaign @cleanclothes.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
The workers in these two factories fought side by side for the money that was stolen from them for years, yet Nike is applying different standards to the two groups of workers.
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Clean Clothes Campaign @cleanclothes.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
A month later, we must conclude: Nike ghosted them, again! The former Violet Apparel workers are wondering why. After years of ignoring wage theft in its supply chain, Nike this year finally started compensating workers of the Hong Seng factory in Thailand, but not the former Violet Apparel workers
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Clean Clothes Campaign @cleanclothes.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
After these five years of being told that they did not produce for Nike (despite clear proof!) and being denied justice, they once more respectfully contacted the company that could so easily ensure they are paid the severance they were unlawfully denied.
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Clean Clothes Campaign @cleanclothes.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
The former workers of the Violet Apparel factory in Cambodia, which produced clothes for Nike, wrote a letter to the brand on the 5th anniversary of their factory's closure. Sign the petition on cleanclothes.org/NikeSteals Read the full letter by the workers: cleanclothes.org/VioletLetter
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Clean Clothes Campaign @cleanclothes.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
Together with other human rights organisations, we call on the Burmese authorities to surface & release Solidarity Trade Union of Myanmar (STUM) leader & HRD Myo Myo Aye & other STUM union members who were arbitrarily arrested & detained under unknown charges. cleanclothes.org/news/2025/ca...
Myo Myo Aye speaking into a microphone and holding up a piece of paper with text
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Clean Clothes Campaign @cleanclothes.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
The former workers of the Hulu Garment factory in Cambodia, who made clothes for adidas, were tricked. They weren't told that below the payslips they were signing a resignation letter was hidden. The lost their jobs & never received the severance they should have gotten, had they be dismissed.
Hulu Garment worker standing in front of two massive adidas shoes holding up a sign "adidas stole my wages". Text below: "We did not want to stop working, but they forced us to sign with a thumbprint or our wages would not be paid." TAKE ACTION NOW!

Write to adidas to urge to pay the Hulu workers on cleanclothes.org/hulu. 

#PayYourWorkers
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Clean Clothes Campaign @cleanclothes.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
Excited for the European Women's Football Finale? The same brands that sponsor the kits & are vocal about women empowerment profit from the exploitation of women in their supply chain. TAKE ACTION: send adidas an e-mail telling it to pay the former Hulu workers on cleanclothes.org/hulu or read more:
7 models wearing Adidas kits are sitting looking at the camera with the text below: ADIDAS: MAKIG MILLIONS FROM WOMEN'S FOOTBALL BUT IGNORING THE UNPAID WOMEN IN ITS SUPPLY CHAIN
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Clean Clothes Campaign @cleanclothes.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
From the Play Fair Olympics campaigns in the 2000s for better working conditions in sportswear factories in Indonesia and beyond to her many years as coordinator of Clean Clothes Campaign’s South East Asia regional coalition, she tirelessly worked to improve workers’ rights in the garment industry.
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Clean Clothes Campaign @cleanclothes.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Our dearest sister, friend, comrade and colleague Mimmy Kowel passed away yesterday. The CCC network, to which she dedicated so much energy, enthusiasm and power, will miss her tremendously. We cherish our plentiful warm memories of her and will continue to fight for the justice she believed in.
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Clean Clothes Campaign @cleanclothes.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
They demanded: - justice for garment workers in Bangladesh who are facing charges just for protesting against poverty wages - an end to the use of massively polluting air transport for clothes Thanks to the great actions by Abiti Puliti/Fair in Italy and @setemcat.bsky.social in Barcelona.
Protesters in front of a Zara store with various party visible signs. The sign in the middle says "Stop salaris de misèria a Bangladesh"
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Clean Clothes Campaign @cleanclothes.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
Yesterday, we stood up together to hold Inditex, the company that owns Zara, to account. While Fondazione Finanza Etica was present at the shareholders meeting to ask difficult questions, activists from our network in Milano & Barcelona took to the street to tell Zara it is time for change.
Women in front of a Zara store holding up a sign "direct flight to climate disaster" and a small cardboard plane saying "Zara"
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Clean Clothes Campaign @cleanclothes.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
Read the full press release with out demands on the day of Inditex's AGM here: cleanclothes.org/news/2025/ng...
Activists holding signs and a megaphone in front of an Inditex distribution centre in the Netherlands in front of a big banner saying: Zara, 100% exploitation made in fear. Signs say Workers in Bangladesh face hail for protesting poverty wages, Wages not jail and We refuse to be the world's lowest wage earners
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Clean Clothes Campaign @cleanclothes.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
This is great news: Last week, Pakistani workers in Italy, who worked 12 hour shifts for 6 days a week on incredibly low wages to make bags for luxury brand Montblanc took their de facto employer to court. Read more: cleanclothes.org/news/2025/mo...
Workers and activists protesting in front of a Montblanc store, with signs reading "Clean Clothes Campaign" and "Shame in Italy".
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Clean Clothes Campaign @cleanclothes.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
It’s been 5+ years since Nike supplier Hong Seng Knitting duped workers out of their wages. A new report exposes how social audit firms actively undermine worker rights, & saw Nike hide behind expensive consultants & lawyers to avoid accountability. Read the full report at bit.ly/checkingboxes
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Clean Clothes Campaign @cleanclothes.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
It’s been over 5 years since Amazon supplier Hulu Garment tricked workers & deprived them of legally-owed pay. Social auditing firms like Impactt are helping to cover this up. A new report shows how social audit firms actively undermine workers’ rights. Read the full report at bit.ly/checkingboxes
Deny defend, distract. Meet the firm that helps Amazon steal from workers. Cambodian worker holding a sign: Amazon Pay Your Workers at Hulu GarmentAMAZON HIRED SOCIAL AUDITING FIRM IMPACTT LTD TO DO AN “INVESTIGATION.” Impactt’s got Cambodian law wrong. They also got human nature wrong, claiming that it totally made sense that low-wage workers who’d been getting by on just 40% of their pay for a month wouldn’t want to be paid.
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Clean Clothes Campaign @cleanclothes.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
This weekend we joined an Amsterdam-based protest against the racist work place raid and in solidarity with garment workers and all who stand up against injustice in the US right now. Solidarity and justice are what we need around the world.
Protest manifestation with person yelling through a megaphone. Flags include Clean Clothes Campaign flag and rainbow flag.Sign reads: Solidarity with LA Garment WorkersSign reads "Stop racist workplace raids"
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Clean Clothes Campaign @cleanclothes.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
If the factory that produces your clothes reports a migrant worker to the police for speaking up against wage theft, you should offer real remedy, not pennies ‼️ Tell Nike to #PayYourWorkers in full, and to provide adequate compensation to workers like Kyaw San Oo: www.payyourworkers.org/ramatex
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Clean Clothes Campaign @cleanclothes.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
In our global fight for workers’ rights, we must stand up for all workers, regardless of status. Take action by: 1️⃣ Donating to the workers’ families: www.gofundme.com/f/urgent-aid... 2️⃣ Telling Congress no troops on US streets: action.aclu.org/send-message...
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Clean Clothes Campaign @cleanclothes.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
UK brand NEXT is shutting down its only unionised factory in Sri Lanka. Workers fought hard for the benefits the company is now trying to use against them. Unionised jobs & higher wages, are rights to be celebrated not ditched, NEXT! www.sundaytimes.lk/250525/news/... w/ @labourlabel.bsky.social
'Defend the only unionised Next factory in Sri Lanka" in big letters on top of a black background above white factory building with the NEXT logo.
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Clean Clothes Campaign @cleanclothes.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Today at adidas’ AGM, CCC & 285 organisations around the world called on the sportswear giant to sign the legally-binding #PayYourWorkers Agreement, something it can clearly afford to do after boasting “better than expected” first quarter results Learn more: shorturl.at/U1Yn5
An image taken of the board at adidas’ AGM meeting in Germany today. On the right hand side, there is a screen showing an Adidas ad of two athletes touching head and text that reads “you got this” with our demand “sign the pay your workers agreement!” Superimposed on top
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Clean Clothes Campaign @cleanclothes.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
As the world commemorates the Nakba, we stand with the people of Palestine. The fight for fair fashion cannot be separated from the fight for Palestinian liberation. Solidarity is the thread that binds us all to Palestine - none of us are free until we’re all free! 🍉🇵🇸❤️ 📸 @labourlabel.bsky.social
An image of Labour Behind the Label holding a Palestine flag. The text reads "solidarity with Gaza across supply chains on Nakba Day 2025. We stand with Palestine and call out fashion fashion's complicity in genocide"
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Clean Clothes Campaign @cleanclothes.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Ikea, Wrangler & Decathlon collectively made billions last year 🤑 
But what are they willing to pay to truly protect their factory workers? $0!
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Sign the petition to tell these brands to stop stalling & to sign the Accord: cleanclothes.org/AccordPetition
Meme showing God refusing Decathlon, Wrangler & Ikea entry to heaven and saying “Sorry No. You got too into putting garment workers’ lives at risk”
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Clean Clothes Campaign @cleanclothes.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
All over our network, organisations marked International Workers' Day yesterday with demands for decent working conditions, living wages and freedom to organise. In Indonesia, sadly, the demonstration faced repression and violence. We keep fighting for workers' rights around the word.
Protesters behind a big banner in Bangla of BCWS and BGWIF holding signs in BanglaProtestes in the Philippines in front of a sign in red holding a blue smaller sign saying Stop Union Busting!Protesters in Sri Lanka with masks and texts in Sinhala. Workers in Cambodia setting behind a BWI banner and wearing helmets and looking at protesters walking holding signs in Khmer
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Clean Clothes Campaign @cleanclothes.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Workers who successfully get their factory unionised might soon face factory closure and job losses because brands would rather not source from suppliers where workers have too many rights. This is the reality for two Fruit of the Loom factories in Honduras and a Montblanc factory in Italy 3/5
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Clean Clothes Campaign @cleanclothes.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Workers who organise or choose their own union face dismissal, like the Levi’s factory in Turkey. Workers who speak out are forced to withdraw from their union of choice, like the Tom Tailor and Asda supplier in Sri Lanka 2/5
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Clean Clothes Campaign @cleanclothes.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
On International Workers’ Day, we support workers in their struggle for their right to organise freely, a right that is consistently and actively impaired by union-busting 1/5
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Clean Clothes Campaign @cleanclothes.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Today marks the first Labour Day since the 2024 July Revolution in Bangladesh. The labour recommendations recently put forward by the interim government are a beacon of hope. We celebrate their alignment with the workers' demands and support their swift implementation.
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Clean Clothes Campaign @cleanclothes.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
On #InternationalWorkersDay we're urging the Golden Colour Fashion factory in Myanmar, to withdraw its retaliatory lawsuit against 5 factory union leaders & Myo Myo Aye of the Solidarity Trade Union of Myanmar. The factory is using Section 66(d) of the 2013 Telecommunication law to intimidate them.
Cartoon images of 6 people with the text Say No to (66)d
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Clean Clothes Campaign @cleanclothes.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Want to show your solidarity with garment workers this International Workers Day (or any day)? Download our print-ready solidarity poster - made in Bangladesh - by signing up for our mailing list through the link below. cleanclothes.org/get-your-int... #InternationalWorkersDay #MayDay #LabourDay
Three women of different backgrounds stand in front of a globe and hold a sign saying "living wage for all". One holds a megaphone. The text on top of the globe says "global garment worker solidarity".
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Clean Clothes Campaign @cleanclothes.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
Show that you stand in solidarity with garment workers this International Workers Day by bringing our poster to your May Day parade or hanging it in front of your window. Sign up to our mailing list through the link below to get our print-size poster immediately. cleanclothes.org/get-your-int...
Three women of different backgrounds stand in front of a globe and hold a sign saying "living wage for all". One holds a megaphone. The text on top of the globe says "global garment worker solidarity"
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