Transparency is fundamental to positive change in the garment industry; brands have failed to provide an honest account of the wages, conditions, and living standards of the people that make their clothes.
Transparency REPORT
key insights
How Our Project Works
No Sweat’s T-shirts are about solidarity, and because of that we operate differently to other T-shirt companies. Our wholesale clothing range operates as a not-for-profit company, so the profits made from sales are put into our campaign work and our Garment Workers Solidarity Fund. This report provides the details of how that works.
factory profiles
It is important to show where our clothes are made and what the conditions are that they are made. This report provides detailed factory profiles on the factories that we source from. This includes wage rages and in-work benefits that workers receive.
workplace democracy
The most important aspect to our clothing range is the focus we put on workers rights. We work closely with trade unions on the ground to make sure the workers in the factories making our clothes are able to build the power they need to have a place at the table, to negotiate for better wages and conditions with the management and ensure collective bargaining agreements are in place to protect their rights.
Beyond Transparency
Transparency is not the end of the struggle against sweatshops, only the beginning.
By creating genuine transparency across the global garment industry supply chain, workers, activists and unions can identify and combat cases of human rights abuse and environmental destruction as they emerge.
If laws were in place to ensure the hours, wages and conditions of supply chain workers were published, then more can be done to publicise issues and rich brands can be pressured to act. As more contact with and between workers is made, stronger unions can emerge and workers can build power to ensure a seat at the table.
Rather than the garment sectors race-to-the-bottom; reducing wages and destroying the planet, that the current model is built on, we can begin to create a progressive drive toward a new system that sees brands and factory owners pay a living wage, implement genuinely environmental sustainability, and ensure workers have a voice in the world we create.