Good clothes fair pay, the campaign for decent wages in the fashion sector

80% of textile workers are made up of underpaid women.For this reason, the Good clothes fair pay campaign was born, which can be supported by signing an online petition.

THE'fashion industry provides employment to over 70 million people all over the world.THE'80 percent of the textile workers is made up of women who are underpaid and live to the limits of the poverty line.This situation was aggravated by pandemic which saw many factories close in Southeast Asia, when fashion brands refused to take back goods already produced and pay for them.Workers are literally left on the streets in places where there is no social network to protect those in poverty.

When the situation was made public by statements from trade representatives, a group of associations launched the campaign Pay your workers in the media.The most important brands realized that the consequences for their image would be serious and therefore decided to withdraw the goods and pay for the production.But many brands have refused to do so.

The objectives of the Good clothes fair pay campaign

This shows that when we are determined and united we can change situations that seem beyond our control.In 2020 a group of sixty non-governmental organizations sent a bill to the European Parliament called Good clothes fair pay.After two years the European Union strategy on textiles which, in two years, must be ratified in the member countries.The EU parliament has followed our advice, except when it comes to paying a living wage to those who produce our clothes.

For this reason, a group of non-governmental organizations, among them Fashion Revolution, gave birth to the initiative Good clothes fair pay to submit a text of law to the European Parliament in which the fashion brands selling in Europe to demonstrate that their producers throughout the supply chain have paid a decent salary and not the minimum wage which is often below the poverty line.

The online petition

To pass this law we must collect one million signatures in one year.In Italy we have worked to collect 72 thousand signatures and we need everyone's help to ensure social justice to the millions of people who make our clothes.When parents don't earn enough, children have to go to work too.Help us ensure this never happens again:sign the petition.