‘Only job I know’: tiny Lesotho’s garment workers reel from Trump’s tariffs https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/apr/04/lesotho-garment-workers-reel-trump-tariffs #Internationaltrade #Globaldevelopment #Garmentworkers #Globaleconomy #Trumptariffs #DonaldTrump #Worldnews #Business #Lesotho #Tariffs #Africa #USnews
Do you see us now, #Nike ?
“We are #garmentworkers standing together to demand wage increases and human rights protections in Nike's supply chain.”
Asia Floor Wage Alliance
https://asia.floorwage.org/
Fight The Heist
https://globallaborjustice.org/fighttheheist/
bosses are always keen to “reduce the cost of labour”
https://restofworld.org/2025/bangladesh-garment-factories-automation-surveillance/
#automation #Bangladesh (Next: #Cambodia #indonesia #Myanmar / #Burma #Egypt #Ethiopia #Morocco #Tunisia )
#Capitalism #exploitation
#garmentworkers #surveillance
#IWD2025 This International Women's Day we are highlighting the struggles that women workers face in the garment industry and point the the place strong, independent trade unions have in combating exploitation and gender-based violence.
Shirtwaist Strike 1909
https://philadelphiaencyclopedia.org/essays/shirtwaist-strike-1909-10/
General Strike 1910
https://philadelphiaencyclopedia.org/essays/general-strike-of-1910/
#labormovement #organize #garmentworkers #solidarity #unions
#Philadelphia #Shirtwaist #strike #workingclasshistory #generalstrike
Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America
https://depts.washington.edu/moves/CIO_ACWA_locals.shtml
#garmentworkers #labormovement #organize #unions #ACWA
Sidney Hillman organizer https://aflcio.org/about/history/labor-history-people/sidney-hillman
The Amalgam: An Immigrant, His Labor Union, and His American Family in Brooklyn - By Frances Jetter
https://progressive.org/latest/stitching-together-family-and-activism-in-a-graphic-history-buhle-20241018/
#art #illustration #comics #graphicnovels
Garment Workers Unions
https://guides.loc.gov/organized-labor/garment-workers
#GarmentWorkers #Labormovement #organize #unions
Yesterday we march alongside comrades of the UK trade union movement at the 138th Durham Miners' Gala on the 40th anniversary of the Miners' Strike.
We marched representing all the trade unions in garment producing countries around the world that we work with and support.
THERE IS POWER IN A UNION!
Cranking up the furnaces for a newsletter - this one features the first *guest post* which is on a very important topic and full of original insights and interviews with garment workers.
Free to subscribe. Won't make you shop more. https://tansyhoskins.org/subscribe/
1/3 #FastFashion exploits #GarmentWorkers and fuels the #ClimateCrisis
The world’s #GarmentWorkers are on the frontlines of climate impacts
To expose how #ClimateChange is impacting workers throughout #fashion’s supply chain, The Fuller Project tracked products from several brands — including Walmart, Primark, H&M, Gap, and Old Navy — across several countries. At each stage, women play a vital role in the global business of fashion yet their livelihoods — and lives — are being increasingly threatened by #ExtremeWeather."
https://grist.org/labor/the-worlds-garment-workers-are-on-the-frontlines-of-climate-impacts/
#InternationalHumanSolidarityDay
We're fundraising the bail money to get 115 garment workers and trade union organisers out of prison — they were arrested during protests for a living wage!
Act in Solidarity.
Donate.
https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/help-free-a-garment-worker-in-bangladesh
Help free jailed garment workers in Bangladesh!
Donate to our crowdfunder raising bail money to get workers out of prison and back home to their families. 
#solidarity #prison #freedom #Bangladesh #garmentworkers #fundraiser #crowdfunder #ethicalfashion #nosweat
https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/help-free-a-garment-worker-in-bangladesh
There are protests happening in Bangladesh as garment workers demand a living wage.
An alliance of trade union federations has formed to call on the government to implement a new minimum wage that meets the cost if living.
Raise the wage! 25,000 taka now!
