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Half of Sri Lanka’s Covid Cases Linked to a Factory That Manufactures for GAP, Calvin Klein, and Victoria’s Secret [Via Vice News]

Vice News investigates a 10,000-person outbreak of COVID-19 in Sri Lanka, linked back to a garment factory that manufactures for Western brands, and interviews PayUp Fashion coalition members Remake and StandUp Movement.

#PayUp Urges Brands To Do Better During New Lockdowns and More News from Early November

This week, the viral #PayUp movement passed 3,000 signatures on its PayUp Fashion road map to reform the industry, and sent an equal number of customized messages to brand executives demanding they make garment worker justice a priority moving forward. #PayUp was in...

How Much Do Garment Workers Make? Not Enough to Survive

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...

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

Eco-Age.com Magazine interviews PayUp Fashion coalition member and Remake founder Ayesha Barenblat about the #PayUp campaign and our Seven Actions for change, how the campaign verifies its information, and why people power is necessary to hold brands accountable.

Garment Workers in LA are Fighting to Change a Long History of Sweatshop Conditions [Via Fashionista]

Fashionista.com covers L.A.’s long history of wage theft and labor exploitation in the apparel supply chain, where undocumented women from Mexico and Central America often toil sewing clothes for fast fashion companies like Forever 21 and Fashion Nova at a third of the legal minimum wage.

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

We’ve tried decades worth of awareness-raising for sweatshop workers, and we’ve allowed big companies to lead change on social and environmental issues in their factories. That strategy has failed. Here are the reforms that labor rights groups say the apparel industry needs to make, and why the pandemic provides an historic opportunity to see them realized.

#PayUp Pressure Pays Off: Brands Commit to Paying Billions to Garment Factories [Via Eco Warrior Princess]

Eco Warrior Princess covers the devastating decision made by global apparel brands to cancel orders and refuse payment to their garment factories for completed goods worth $40 billion at the start of the pandemic.

PayUp Fashion Initiative Launches to Secure Industry’s Future [via Fashion United]

Fashion United's Simone Preuss covered the launch of the PayUp Fashion initiative, writing "In March of this year, US-based NGO Remake together with partnering organisation and labour activist and founder of the AWAJ Foundation, Nazma Akter, launched the #PayUp...

PayUp Movement Launches Long-Term Campaign for Reform [Via Apparel Insider]

Apparel Insider's Brett Matthews covers the launch of PayUp Fashion, writing "The #PayUp movement, a global coalition of garment workers, labour organisations and citizen advocates, has launched a long-term vision for change called PayUp Fashion, which lays out...