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Ethical Trade: The Business Case – two short films for retailers and suppliers
The ETI has just produced two really useful new films that set out the business case for ethical trade, for suppliers and retailers. We all know that pictures, preferably moving pictures, are crucial in getting people to relate to workers and their lives and we welcome these new films as a useful resource for [...]
Labour behind the Label (LBL) has published its annual ‘Let’s Clean up Fashion’ report on the labour standards of high street fashion retailers. Like previous reports it makes fascinating reading.
This year’s report focuses on retailers’ efforts on Living Wages. This is a crucial area for ethical trade and labour standards, particularly in the era [...]
Following on from the focus on Primark’s ethical standards over the past couple of weeks, Tesco’s AGM today has meant attention has now turned to the supermarket’s commitment to ethical trade, with pressure being brought to bear on the retailer from several different directions.
Perhaps the most high profile Tesco critic of recent weeks is [...]
Last year Labour behind the Label released a report entitled Let’s Clean up Fashion, the report interrogated eleven high street retailers’ claims about their ethical trading programmes and concluded that none of the companies was doing enough. On Friday, Labour behind the Label released their 2007 update. This year’s report focuses on three issues: [...]