A national and international campaign led by a garment workers’ union in the Philippines and supported by international labour rights organizations has won a negotiated agreement to respect the workers’ associational rights at the MetroWear Two factory in the Mactan Export Processing Zone. The factory produces sportwear for the Canadian-based athletic apparel company lululemon.

On April 24, twelve years ago, the Rana Plaza building in Bangladesh that housed five garment factories collapsed, killing at least 1,138 workers in a preventable disaster. MSN joins with others in the Clean Clothes Campaign global network and Bangladeshi unions in honouring the survivors and family members of the workers killed in this tragedy and reiterating our commitment to fighting the root causes of the collapse, including unsafe factories, poverty wages, corporate negligence, and union busting.

In the wake of the U.S. Trump administration’s sweeping changes to global trade, MSN joins with the Clean Clothes Campaign network in calling on apparel brands to ensure that the costs of the tariffs and the ensuing uncertainty are not borne by workers further down the supply chain.