9/1/21 Update: This page now tracks the signatories to the new International Accord! The Accord on Fire and Building Safety in Bangladesh has saved garment makers lives over the past eight years. On August 25, 2021, after months of negotiations, a new agreement was...
Today we celebrate the renewal of the ground-breaking Bangladesh Accord and its historic expansion into new countries. Under this new agreement, renamed the International Accord for Health and Safety in the Textile and Garment Industry, garment workers in Bangladesh...
In just over a month, the historic Accord agreement on garment worker safety in Bangladesh will expire, threatening to catapult the fashion industry back to the days when workers feared for their lives and died by the thousands in crumbling and fire-prone structures....
The Garment Worker Protection Act (SB62) is a California bill that aims to end wage theft in the state’s garment factories, where makers, most of them immigrant women of color, routinely earn as little as $3 an hour. California is the largest...
In recent weeks, Remake and PayUp Fashion have flooded executive inboxes at Zara, H&M, and Tommy Hilfiger, calling on the global giants to renew the Accord. Signed in 2013 after the Rana Plaza factory collapse, the historic Accord on Fire and Building Safety has...
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