Climate Rights International today released an important report about the effect of heat on workers in Pakistani factories and mills. With temperatures reaching over 40C in the hottest time of year, workers continue working in factories and mills that are not adapted to ensure workers' health is protected: “Many garment units are built like sealed boxes. The priority is to protect the product, not the people who stitch it.”
Read more: https://cri.org/pakistan-workers-suffer-fashion-brands-fail-to-act-extreme-heat/

✊🏽 We stand in solidarity with workers all across South East & South Asia who are affected by the extreme weather & flooding. We call on garment brands to ensure that workers continue to be paid & to ensure factories have the space to ensure they are safe before they reopen. We urge all garment brands to sign the Pay Your Workers agreement to be prepared to compensate workers in other climate crisis events to come. We need a just transition that centres workers. Read more: https://cleanclothes.org/news/2025/fashion-brands-must-not-abandon-workers-impacted-by-catastrophic-flooding

A new Amnesty International report shows that garment brands around the world profit from the repression of workers' right to unionise. Well known brands overwhelmingly source from factories without unions. The establishment of a union & collective bargaining agreement in a Sri Lankan NEXT factory features as a hard won workers' success in the report. Yet in May '25 the factory suddenly closed without consulting the union or respecting the agreement. We see union busting! https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2025/11/garment-industry-profits-from-denial-of-right-to-unionize/

Want to set a signal on Black Friday? Show your solidarity with the Cambodian workers who were cheated out of their jobs 5 years ago. They made clothes for Amazon & Adidas who are set to make millions today. Use our e-mail tool to remind them of the workers they abandoned: https://cleanclothes.org/campaigns/hulu

Tomorrow is the international BDS action day targeting Reebok's sponsorship of the Israeli Football Association, have a look here to see what you can do to join in: https://cleanclothes.org/campaigns/bds

Safety incidents in Bangladeshi factories in garment supply chains last month have put the spotlight on the fact that many workers making our clothes in Bangladesh are still not safe. While the International Accord put in place after the 2013 Rana Plaza collapse has done vital work to make garment factories safer, workers in supply chains of brands that refused to sign the Accord continue to risk their lives at work.
Read our blog: https://cleanclothes.org/news/2025/two-bangladeshi-tragedies-why-have-some-brands-still-not-learned-their-lesson

In May, UK brand NEXT closed a factory for being too expensive only days after announcing a 1 billion GDP profit forecast. The past months we have together with the workers fought to get their jobs back - which were apparently too expensive after a 10 GDP increase. NEXT is not moving at all, but did announce an additional 30 million profits this week. What?
https://cleanclothes.org/news/2025/next-raises-profit-forecast-again-but-when-will-their-workers-get-a-share

Time for action! What will you do on 22 November to hold Reebok accountable for sponsoring the Israeli Football Association? https://www.bdsmovement.net/news/join-boycott-reebok-global-day-action-%E2%80%93-nov-22

After the fire this week that burnt down several unregistered garment & printing factories, we continue to investigate links between these factories & international brands. Meanwhile the following things need to be done to avoid further loss of life:
- Brands need to be more transparent about their full supply chain
- More brands need to sign the Accord
- Brands already in the Accord need to do more to ensure that factories further down the supply chain are also inspected
https://www.thedailystar.net/news/bangladesh/accidents-fires/news/mirpur-factory-fire-chemical-fumes-still-the-air-4011126