April of 2020, more than 1,000 garment factories in India have refused to pay their garment workers the minimum wage, as they toil for some of the world’s biggest fashion brands, including H&M, Zara, Nike, Abercrombie & Fitch, and American Eagle...
PayUp Fashion reached out to the US Agency for International Development (USAID) in regards to a pandemic relief plan launched in 2020 that promised to “help hard-hit supply chain workers in Asia” and so far has fallen short. This MOU allowed big brand...
Garment workers are still suffering. Infections from coronavirus may be falling, at last, but the fashion industry has experienced an upheaval and contraction that’s impacted millions of workers. A recent survey by the Worker Rights Consortium found that 77% of...
Like many industries, the fashion sector has been devastated by the COVID-19 pandemic, with factory workers bearing the significant burden of financial hardship and health risk. Citing low sales, many brands refused to pay factories for cancelled orders, with $16...
Vice News reporters Zinara Rathnayake and Ruby Lott-Lavigna investigate a huge outbreak of COVID-19 in Sri Lanka, linked back to a garment factory that routinely manufactures for huge Western apparel brands like GAP, Calvin Klein, Victoria’s Secret, and Marks...
When clothing brands began cancelling orders and delaying payments to their factories in response to the halted sales and store shutdowns during the Covid pandemic, the impact of these lost payments was felt hardest by garment workers whose hands sewed the clothes. If...
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