Wages that come to life – this is what the EU citizens’ initiative calls for with its campaign ‘Good Clothes and Fair Pay” Currently, the majority of textile workers in the global apparel industry cannot afford to live in a decent home, eat a healthy diet or go to the doctor. The national minimum wage is often insufficient to cover the cost of living.
A living wage is not a luxury, it is a basic human right!
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Do you like to write or do you want to creatively put your thoughts on the topic of clothing on paper? Whether advanced or newcomer: Join our digital writing workshop!
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From 23 to 27 June, our long-standing Indian partner, union president Rukmini V. Puttaswamy, visited FEMNET. We are grateful for the valuable exchange with the committed activist. Her message was clear: We need more transparency along the entire supply chain and more say for trade unions.
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How can content on the climate crisis, production processes and associated climate impacts be excitingly packaged in educational contexts? Which ‘dead-killing arguments’ can education officers counter? How does the balancing act manage, on the one hand, to generate emotions and, at the same time, to avoid feelings of powerlessness? We discussed these and similar questions during the one-day training for the educational workshops in the project Klima & Klamotten.
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Already on the 5th. Sometimes FEMNET offers an up-to-date and attractive guide for conscious shopping in Bonn.
The buyer's guide shows shops that sell fair, ecological or clothing produced in the EU 15 (old EU countries). From boutiques to children's clothing to second hand shops, the brochure offers a good overview and helps you to find your way around the cash jungle. Also new is the app to the shopping guide. This allows consumers to quickly and easily search for ecologically and fairly produced clothing in shops in Bonn on the go.
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Two cities, two very different tenders, but one thing they have in common: Innovative processes demand significantly more sustainability than before. The city of Trier strategically addresses several product groups at the same time, municipal companies in Constance combine criteria on several levels of textile production and care.
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After two years of travel, Daniela Wawrzyniak, coordinator of FEMNET foreign projects, and Gisela Burckhardt, CEO of FEMNET, travelled to Tirupur in Tamil Nadu and Bangalore for 10 days from 22 May to 1 June 2022. They visited our partner organizations SAVE, READ, Munnade, GLU and Cividep and bring many impressions with them.
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Aspiring apparel technical assistants will learn everything about a sustainable fashion industry in the workshop project ‘Active for human rights in fashion’.
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Gisela Burckhardt addressed critical questions for FEMNET to Zalando and Hugo Boss at their shareholder meetings in May 2022. Both events took place virtually, which prevents critical inquiries. Overall, both companies remained very inconclusive in their responses.
In view of a legal regulation for large companies to comply with their due diligence obligations from January 2023 (Supply Chain Due Diligence Act, LKG), the question arises as to what role voluntary measures such as the Green Button or the Alliance for Sustainable Textiles (Textile Alliance) could have in the future.
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...Action workshop on the Supply Chain Act.
In the ballroom, the community tent of the Fairquer initiative and the student council of the Niederrhein University of Applied Sciences, found the supporting program of the Recruiting Messe MG is attracting instead. On 20 May 2022, FEMNET was able to design a workshop for the students, which included not only an input on the content of the supply chain, but also an action workshop to develop their own options for action.
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Bonn, Cologne, Berlin. Forced labour in China? Low wages in Ukraine? Lack of progress on climate protection? These and other questions must be asked by the fashion company Hugo Boss at its upcoming Annual General Meeting on May 24 by FEMNET, the umbrella association of critical shareholders and the campaign for clean clothing (CCC Germany).
