Leading fashion brands including Barbour and PVH, which owns Calvin Klein and Tommy Hilfiger, have said they will pay £400,000 to garment workers in Mauritius …
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Serving the tee: fashion workers on where they found their favourite T-shirts | Life and style
“The best kind of T-shirt is the type you had as a kid at school, that starts off feeling like a cardboard box, but 10 …
Amazon’s Logistics Workers in Spain Plan Cyber Monday Walk-Outs
Spanish union CCOO on Monday called on 20,000 warehouse and delivery workers at Amazon’s local unit to stage a one-hour strike on each shift on …
Workers for fast fashion brands fear starvation as they fight for higher wages | Global development
Garment workers making clothes in Bangladesh for UK high-street brands say they are facing starvation and are having to steal and scavenge food from fields …
‘War of attrition’: why union victories for US workers at Amazon have stalled | Amazon
A year ago, Amazon workers in Staten Island, New York won a “historic” victory – overcoming a multimillion-dollar campaign by the multibillion-dollar corporation to win …
Walmart Faces Second US Lawsuit This Week Over Treatment of Workers
Walmart Inc was sued on Thursday by the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency’s second lawsuit this week accusing the largest US retailer …
Prada Aims to Hire Over 400 Workers in Italy This Year
Prada aims to hire more than 400 people in Italy by the end of the year to strengthen its production capacity and maintain growth, the …
Union Group Calls on Brands to Support Garment Workers After Turkey Quake
The Pay Your Workers coalition said international brands should commit to pay suppliers on time, take steps to address wage theft and make sure factories …
Banana Boat Maker Still Sees Tight Market for Factory Workers
For a gauge of just how tight the labor market is, look no further than the company that makes Banana Boat sunscreen and Playtex tampons. Edgewell Personal Care …
Stitch Fix to Cut 20% of Salaried Workers as CEO Steps Down
Stitch Fix Inc. said Thursday that it will cut about 20 percent of salaried employees and that Chief Executive Officer Elizabeth Spaulding will step down. …
Workers in Thailand who made F&F jeans for Tesco ‘trapped in effective forced labour’ | Tesco
Burmese workers that produced F+F jeans for Tesco in Thailand report being trapped in effective forced labour, working 99-hour weeks for illegally low pay in …
‘How Can We Live?’: For Garment Workers, It’s Worse Than the Pandemic
DHAKA, Bangladesh – For the last three months, Rashida Khatun, a garment worker at one of the many factories in Dhaka that make clothes for …
Doha fashion Fridays: migrant workers show off their style – a photo essay | Qatar
Every day Bisho Sahani would start his work shift at 5am, constructing roads for hours in Qatar’s ferocious summer heat. And every night when he …
Amazon enters the age of robots. What does that mean for its workers? | Amazon
Trapped in a metal cage in a corner of a 350,000 sq ft Amazon warehouse outside Boston last week a lonely yellow robot arm sorted …
Devising a New Social Contract for Fashion’s Garment Workers
To subscribe to the BoF Podcast, please follow this link. Over the past year, the pandemic has laid bare — and worsened — the stark …
‘I call it Afro-Aristo’: the reinvention of a Georgian worker’s cottage | Interiors
My interiors look was driven by a desire to celebrate our family’s dual Nigerian and Caribbean heritage,” says Kemi Lawson. Her new home is set …
Target to Hire 100,000 Holiday Workers, Offer Deals Earlier
Target Corp said on Thursday it plans to hire up to 100,000 seasonal workers for the holiday season and start offering festive deals earlier than …
Lululemon Workers Drop Bid for Union Vote at Washington D.C. Store
Lululemon Athletica Inc. employees have withdrawn their petition to unionise a store in Washington, D.C., marking a setback for the recent wave of organising at previously …
Pakistani garment workers left destitute and starving after Missguided collapse | Global development
Hundreds of garment workers in Pakistan making clothing for collapsed fast fashion brand Missguided say they have been left destitute and starving after not receiving …
Fast-fashion giant Shein pledges $15m for textile waste workers in Ghana | Global development
Chinese fashion behemoth Shein might be the organisation least expected to win applause at an international conference on fashion sustainability, but that’s what happened at …