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A living wage for garment workers is possible, FWF says

05/12/2016
Amsterdam-based campaign group Fair Wear Foundation (FWF) has launched a new publication called ‘Living Wages: An Explorer’s Notebook’, which it describes as a guide, based on real-life experience, to help garment brands achieve the payment of a living wage to workers who make their clothes.

The document defines nine obstacles that FWF says “stand in the way of living wages”, and offers some solutions for overcoming them. These obstacles include the difficulty of working out what the benchmark should be in different parts of the world and obtaining assurance that extra money actually reaches the workers.

Five FWF members showcase their own experiences in the publication, relating their work on pilot programmes and sharing real-life stories of how they managed to increase workers’ wages.

“None of the stories is a claim to perfect results,” FWF said. “But the cases offer proof that working around roadblocks to living wages is indeed possible.”


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