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Labour Behind the Label supports garment workers' efforts worldwide to defend their rights. We educate consumers, lobby companies and government, raise awareness, and encourage international solidarity with workers. We coordinate the UK platform of the international Clean Clothes Campaign.

Let's Clean Up Fashion 2008

Britain’s fashion industry is split on paying garment factory workers more in developing countries, a survey of 27 of the top fashion brands reveals today.

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Thailand: Freedom of Expression Denied to Triumph Union Leader

Labour Behind the Label and The Clean Clothes Campaign are calling on Triumph International, one of the world’s largest brands of intimate apparel, to reinstate former union president Jitra Kotshadej at one of its factories in Thailand. Ms Kotshadej was dismissed after appearing on national television wearing a campaign t-shirt that the company claim 'brought them into disrepute'.
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Sportswear industry shamed by new allegations on working conditions

Just four months before the Olympic baton is passed from Beijing to London, the Playfair2008 alliance (supported by the TUC and Labour behind the label) has released a damning, name-and-shame indictment of factory working conditions in the sports wear industry.

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Tell Primark not to cut and run

Labour Behind the Label is calling on Primark to reverse its decision to cut and run from three Indian suppliers in advance of a BBC Panorama investigation. Panorama has reportedly uncovered the widespread use of subcontracting in the manufacture of embroidered goods, including the employment of home workers under extremely bad conditions and possible instances of child labour.