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Student and worker campaign success: Nike workers in Honduras paid their dues
Following intense pressure by a largely student and workers lead campaign, Nike has agreed to fund a relief fund for laid-off workers in Honduras. More than 2000 workers dismissed last year from Nike suppliers Hugger and Vision Tex, were owed US$2 million in unpaid wages and severance pay. Nike has now announced a US $1.5 million fund for workers, along with a year's access to health care, training and priority hiring. Garment industry journal Just Style believes that the Honduras case could mark "a new era of transparency whereby developments in the global supply chain are very much in the public eye".
Photo: Tim Herbert/OxfamAUS
Imagine life in my shoes
After years sewing shoes for a famous sportswear brand, quietly spoken 24-year-old Indonesian factory worker Sewani has decided to speak out. For the next 12 weeks Sewani will give you an insight into her everyday life via the In My Shoes blog.
Photos: Timothy Herbert/OxfamAUS
Union leaders go live on adidas campaign
Suwandi knows that 5 years is a long time to wait to find work. He and 32 other union leaders at an adidas supplier factory were illegally sacked in 2005 after they held a strike for better wages.
Hamdani with 2-year-old son, Restu. Photo: Tim Herbert/OxfamAUS
Adidas: Stop wearing us out!
32-year-old Hamdani made adidas sports shoes for several years before being unfairly dismissed for his participation in a strike for better wages.
Photo: Giulio Saggin/ ABC News
Pacific Brands and the ugly side of underwear
With Bonds and Holeproof under its belt, Pacific Brands owns some of the biggest trademarks of Australian fashion. Last year the Pacific Brands closed numerous Australia-based operations, including the iconic Bonds factory, and moved production off-shore.
Photo courtesy CCC
Ralph Lauren & Tommy Hilfiger: Out of Fashion on labour rights
Polo Ralph Lauren and Tommy Hilfiger have decided to look the other way as trade union violations continue at an Indonesian factory supplying for the two US fashion labels.
Photo: OxfamAUS
Nike gets kicked off campus football teams
Last month, as thousand of workers in a Nike shoe factory held strikes in Vietnam for better wages, Nike also got the boot from University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Hamdani with 2-year-old son, Restu. Photo: S Rennie/OxfamAUS
Your voices give crucial support to Adidas workers
More than 100 NikeWatch readers took immediate action last month by sending a message to Adidas. These messages provide crucial support to workers who demand fairer treatment by Adidas suppliers.
Photo:M Crozet
Olympic Record for Labour Rights?
The Play Fair 2012 campaign wants the London Games to raise the bar on workers’ rights. The campaign is calling on the organisers of London 2012 and the Olympic movement to ensure that the rights of workers making sportswear and Olympic branded goods are respected.
Dozens trapped in Bangladesh Garment Factory Fire
Bangladesh Unions and International Labour Rights Organisations call for immediate action after a devastating factory fire killed at least 21 workers and left a further 50 seriously injured.
Move over Oscars: Labour Film Awards Steal the Stage
The Labour Film of the year award will shortly be announced. In the meantime you can view the six extraordinary films shortlisted from more than 200 submissions.
Child exploitation unrivelled on Uzbek cotton fields
Cotton production in Uzbekistan is one of the most exploitative enterprises in the world, an Environmental Justice Foundation (EJF) investigation has revealed.
Ethical Clothing Australia: Supporting Australian-made No Sweatshop Clothing
We are used to hearing of labour rights violations in countries such as China and Indonesia, yet Australia’s own record is far from shining.
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