This podcast is all about putting grassroots stories first, giving garment workers - especially women - a platform to have their voices heard. It is a union production, made by women, and features real sounds captured from the unionized factories that IndustriALL represents.

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Episode 1: The women behind the label

On International Women’s Day, we hear from women garment workers about the issues they face on the factory floor, and look at how IndustriALL’s campaign aims to achieve better social protections for workers in the industry.

This first episode is dedicated to all the women - around 63 million of them - that work in the garment sector.

Contributors:

Garment workers Sulata* and Muniya* (not their real names) from near Dhaka in Bangladesh
Evelyn Astor, Adviser on economic and social policy, International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC)
Christina Hajagos-Clausen, Director for the textile, garment, leather and shoes sector at IndustriALL Global Union
Ruwan Subasinghe, Legal Director, International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF)
Elizabeth Umlas, IndustriALL senior advisor on capital strategies
Petra Brännmark, Communications Director at IndustriALL Global Union

Credits:

Podcast produced by: CORA Campaign Communications
Music by: Nicolas Aguirre
With thanks to Srabani Nahar, Md Hasan Tareq, Thilagam Ramalingam and Nupur Goswami

Links:

To find out more about some of the issues covered in this podcast check out these links:

A new supply chain industrial relations model for the textile and garment industry
Special report: Changing the balance of power in the textile and garment industry
International accord
ACT Initiative - a global commitment to living wages
ITUC report: Investments in social protection and their impacts on economic growth
OECD Forum on Due Diligence in the Garment and Footwear Sector
Video: A new supply chain industrial relations model for the textile and garment industry: A side session panel at the OECD Garment Forum.
International Bargaining Forum (IBF)
Solidarity Center: Fact sheet on workers, rights and working conditions in the global garment and textile industries

Talking Threads podcast: Episode 1 - the women behind the label