Clean Clothes Campaign. The improvement of working conditions in the textile sector is claimed.
Sometimes we must be consistent in what we buy and more in the dates that approach uncontrolled spending. We want to present you an initiative;The Clean Clothes Campaign is a campaign that coordinates in Spain Setemwith an international character, which calls for the improvement of working conditions in the global textile and sports equipment sector, through denunciation, awareness and pressure on the large multinationals in the sector to be transparent throughout their production chain.
Objectives of the Clean Clothes Campaign:
The Clean Clothes Campaign (CRL) brings together an international network of NGOs, unions and consumer organizations. The Clean Clothes Campaign is present in several European countries (14) and collaborates with more than 250 labor organizations around the world who actively work in collaboration with other members of the coalition to achieve the following goals:
- Increase working conditions in the textile and sports equipment industry.
- Achieve that working conditions are equal to those established by the International Labor Organization (ILO).
- Minimize the impact of textile production on the environment.
- Integrate gender analysis into your strategy and campaign project, as a high percentage of workers in the textile industry are women.
- Due to the fact that the global textile sector relies mainly on the informal sector and that it uses immigrant labor heavily, CRL takes this factor into account.
An example would be the breakdown of expenses for producing a t-shirt that emerges from the Living Wage report. 
Or we can delve into what is really charged in terms of a salary in developing countries … Surprise!
The Campaign has developed in the face of the challenges posed by a series of proposals that are collected in a specific document, Full Package Approach to Labor Codes of Conduct access throughwww.cleanclothes.org It describes the steps that a company that wants to develop a credible responsibility strategy should take:
- Adopt a comprehensive, consistent, credible and transparent code of conduct.
- The need to implement the code of conduct.
- Establish channels of real participation of the parties involved.
- Adoption of a positive approach towards freedom of association.
On the official website www.ropalimpia.org you can access an analysis of the different companies that are acting in an «unethical» way and taking advantage of the weakest (HERE). It is worth reading to be able to recognize the harmful scope and power that the abuses of the large multinationals represent. It is worth taking a look at the different reports that the portal brings.
