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March 18, 2009

Clean Clothes Campaign launches Better Bargain Campaign

The Clean Clothes Campaign (CCC) has launched a new campaign focusing on the policies and practices of large global discount retailers including the five largest: Walmart, Tesco, Carrefour, Aldi, and Lidl. The new Better Bargain Campaign targets the purchasing practices of the giant retailers given the profound and ever-increasing power that they wield in the garment retail market.

October 24, 2007

Aldi's clothing bargains

The largest German and European discounter, Aldi, is selling its clothing bargains at a high price: in its study, the SÜDWIND Institute provides evidence of unprecedented violations of labour laws in Chinese and Indonesian factories which supply Aldi.

June 29, 2007

Resources on Wal-Mart

United Food and Commercial Workers, Canada

The union that's organizing Wal-Mart stores in Canada has a site for Wal-Mart workers to learn more:

http://www.walmartworkerscanada.com/

International Labor Rights Fund

ILRF is organizing campaigns to change Wal-Mart's supply chain practices, including spearheading a legal action by Wal-Mart supply chain workers claiming massive, systematic hours and wage violations.