Since 1995, MSN has coordinated campaigns pressuring retailers to take responsibility for the conditions under which their products are made.

Through public campaigns exposing sweatshop practices and demanding retailer accountability and government action, we support workers' efforts - in Canada and internationally - to organize and improve their working and living conditions.

Vaqueros Navarra

Tired of an “official” union that won’t stand up for them, workers at the Vaqueros Navarra jean factory are organizing an independent, democratic union in Tehuacan, Puebla, Mexico. In doing so, they have faced intimidation, harassment, assault, and unjust dismissal.

Chong Won Campaign

Workers producing clothes for Wal-Mart at the Korean-owned Chong Won Fashion garment factory in the Philippines desperately need your support to put a stop to their employers' attempt to destroy their union through violence, mass firings and intimidation.

Play Fair at the Olympics Campaign

The entire Olympic movement, including the Canadian Olympic Committee and the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics, must use its influence to ensure that workers in the sportswear industry are employed under fair, dignified and safe conditions. As the custodian of the Olympic logo in Canada, the Vancouver Olympic Organizing Committee can and must build into sportswear licenses and sponsorship contracts commitments to respect internationally recognized labour standards.

Challenging worker rights abuses in Bangladesh

The Maquila Solidarity Network, the Clean Clothes Campaign (CCC) and the International Textile, Garment and Leather Workers' Federation (ITGLWF) have regularly called attention to the need for structural measures to end the consistent and ongoing worker rights violations in the Bangladeshi garment industry.

Hermosa campaign

The Hermosa garment factory in San Salvador, El Salvador, closed in May of 2005, shortly after workers in the factory formed a union to address ongoing worker rights violations. The closure left 190 workers jobless and without payment of outstanding wages, severance pay and other legally-mandated benefits. MSN and its international allies are pressuring the brands that sourced products from Hermosa over the past years to ensure that workers are paid any outstanding monies due to them, and are reinstated in other contract facilities in the area.

No Sweat Campaign

Across North America, campaigners have been persuading their universities, school boards, municipal and provincial/state governments to adopt "No Sweat" ethical apparel purchasing policies. "No Sweat" policies set minimum labour standards that companies have to meet before these major public institutions will buy their products.