Homeworkers Worldwide is co-ordinating an Employment Rights workshop for migrant workers, on Saturday, 17th June, 12-1pm, at Migrant Rights Network’s ‘One Stop Shop’ day long event for mobile EU citizens, at William Kay House, 327 Oxford Rd., M13 9PG. See link below for more information.
Thanks to Migrants Support, the University of Manchester Legal advice centre, USDAW and IWW for supporting us with this event!
Gopinath and Brinda from our partners Cividep in Bangalore South India will be visiting the UK in May, and they’ll be speaking in Manchester on May 12th, and in London the week after.
Hua Wei from the Centre for Socio-cultural Change at the University of Manchester will also be participating, on garment manufacturing in the UK, together with speakers from Labour behind the Label, Women Working Worldwide and Homeworkers’ WorldWide.
We’re very happy to be working with Labour behind the Label and the Change your Shoes campaign to organise this Panel Discussion at Bridge5Mill on Friday 12th May, from 2-4pm. Everyone Welcome!
Its great to see some Footwear Retailers have recognised the importance of supply chain transparency in the garment and footwear industry, by signing up to Human Rights Watch Follow the Thread Pledge. Check it out here:
Great to see this important new report on exploitation in the Indian leather industry from India Committee of the Netherlands recognise that female homeworkers are ‘among the most precarious workers … (facing) insecure and unprotected work, poverty wages and unsafe working conditions.’ The report also usefully summarises responses from major footwear retailers.
We welcome this new report from the Change your Shoes Campaign, highlighting the significant role that homeworking plays in the shoe industry in Indonesia. Homeworking is a really important form of work that enables women across the world to earn a living, but there are no excuses for poor labour practices that exploit these workers.