Nothing has changed
At the start of lockdown, March 2020, fashion brands on mass cancelled orders with factories and refused to pay even for clothes that had been made. Workers were sent home without pay and many are still fighting today for brands to pay them what they’re owed.
Two years on from that event and nothing has changed - the very same things are happening without punishment.
But there is a solution. A Fashion Watchdog would make brands and retailers treat their suppliers properly.
When brands treat suppliers badly, the workers lose out - wages aren't paid, exploitation increases and millions of people suffer. Smaller fashion brands are unable to compete, and the climate impact of fashion increases.
MPs are starting to wake up to the idea that greater regulation of UK brands in the fashion sector would change things for the people who make our clothes. Your voice on this issue encourages more decision makers to take notice.
Will you ask your MP to take the fashion watchdog pledge?