The Fair Wear Campaign

What is the Fair Wear Campaign?
The Fair Wear Campaign aims to stop exploitation of homebased workers in the clothing industry. The Campaign is a coalition of unions, churches and community organisations. It works in association with the Textile, Clothing & Footwear Union and uses consumer pressure to fight for the rights of all homebased outworkers.

Retailers Ethical Clothing Code of Practice
On 18th September 2002 at NSW Parliament House the Australian Retailers Association (ARA) and the Textile Clothing and Footwear Union (TCF Union) signed a new Retailer Code, committing retailers to taking a more active role in efforts to stop the exploitation of outworkers.

The Retailers Ethical Clothing Code of Practice is a new tool for tracing this invisible workforce from the top of the contracting chain down, and requires retailers to take action when exploitation is uncovered in this process. The new Code will mean retailers will give the TCF Union access to some of their commercial records related to clothing industry suppliers and contracts.

Fair Wear will promote individual retailers which sign up to the national Retailer Ethical Clothing Code with the Textile Clothing & Footwear Union.

Signature to the new Retailer Code does not guarantee every garment has been made without exploitation, but does indicate the retailer's co-operation with the union in providing the commercial records necessary for the union to effectively police compliance with the clothing award within their contracting chains.

How to contact the Fair Wear Campaign
Contact the Fair Wear campaign for further details.

Web Page www.fairwear.org.au
Phone:-
Sydney (02) 9793 9150
Melbourne (03) 9251 5270
Brisbane (07) 3365 4811
Adelaide (08) 8410 6499
Perth (08) 94724227
Queensland email address: fairwearqld@gmail.com

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