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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.
Since 2007, MSN has been actively involved in an international campaign to push Milwaukee-based auto parts manufacturing company Johnson Controls Inc. (JCI) to respect the rights of workers in their Puebla, Mexico plants.
Since the June 28, 2009 coup which ousted the democratically-elected President of Honduras, Manuel Zelaya, MSN has been closely monitoring the ongoing developments. Below you will find postings which document the continuing repression as well as the broad-based civil society resistance and other efforts to condemn the rights violations. You will also find a listing of key documents and groups working on the ground and internationally towards the restoration of democracy and the end to repression.
The multi-billion dollar sportswear industry is plagued by worker rights violations against what are mainly poor women workers in Asia and Latin America. In the report "Clearing the Hurdles: Steps to Improving Wages and Working Conditions in the Global Sportswear Industry" MSN identified four central hurdles that need to be overcome by the industry to make real progress on worker rights violations. These hurdles include a lack of respect for freedom of association as well as the poverty wages prevalent in the industry.
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.
MSN has taken part in numerous important campaigns over the years. Information and archives of some of our more prominent past campaigns are available here.
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