#PayUp Archives - PayUpFashion

H&M, Abercrombie & Fitch, Zara and More Are Underpaying Indian Garment Workers. Here’s What They Have to Say About It

by Admin | Feb 14, 2022 | #PayUp, Keep Workers Safe

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...

[Gal-Dem.com] How The Disappearing British High Street Threatens Women of Color’s Livelihoods

by Admin | Jan 29, 2021 | #PayUp

Gal-Dem.com features PayUpFashion in a story about the devastation facing female retail and factory workers of color as fast fashion companies like Topshop go under. They write: Arcadia Group (owners of Topshop, Topman, Dorothy Evans, Miss Selfridge) announced they...

7 Bold Ideas to Fix Fashion And Create a More Ethical Industry After Covid

by Admin | Jan 16, 2021 | #PayUp, Seven Actions

Without garment workers, there is no fashion — yet the fashion industry abandoned these 70 million workers during the coronavirus pandemic. They died on the job from Covid-19 while making face masks. They went hungry [PDF] as brands refused to pay them for $40 billion...

[Treehugger] A Movement Called PayUp Fashion Urges Brands to Protect, Not Exploit, Their Vulnerable Essential Workers

by Admin | Jan 16, 2021 | #PayUp, #ShareYourProfits, Seven Actions

Treehugger.com features PayUpFashion and our road map for change: Last March, a catastrophe hit Asia’s garment-producing countries. Major fashion brands canceled orders worth more than $40 billion, citing COVID-induced store closures and a severely weakened...

[Eco-Age] PayUp Fashion’s Ayesha Barenblat Talks to Eco-Age About the Seven Actions Holding Fast Fashion Accountable

by Editor | Nov 11, 2020 | #PayUp, Press

Eco-Age.com Magazine interviews PayUp Fashion coalition member and Remake founder Ayesha Barenblat about the #PayUp campaign and our Seven Action. Writer Julie O’Driscoll writes, “When the pandemic hit and fast fashion factories shut down, thousands of...

Fashion’s $16 Billion Debt To Garment Workers Should Spark Reform, Not Sympathy

by Editor | Oct 13, 2020 | #PayUp, Seven Actions

This story originally appeared on Forbes.com and is authored by Elizabeth L. Cline. It appears on PayUp Fashion.com with the author’s permission. While we were tending to our sourdough starters and settling into our sweatpants during the pandemic, one of the...