DEMAND THAT FASHION #PAYUP
SIGN THE #PAYUP PETITIONS
THESE BRANDS NEED TO #PAYUP
These are brands who've made no commitment to pay for orders completed or in production. Updated as of 9/18/20. (Please click the Brand Tracker for the latest list! Media, please use the WRC brand Tracker list
and not this one!) Business & Human Rights Resource Centre is also updating a brand Covid-19 tracker, which has more detailed information about company commitments here.
Arcadia (Topshop, Topman, Miss Selfridge, Dorothy Perkins, Evans, Burton Menswear)
Balmain
Bestseller
C&A
The Children's Place
Edinburgh Woolen Mill/Bonmarche/Peacocks
Esprit
JCPenney
Kohl's
Li & Fung / Global Brands (Jones New York, Sean Jean, etc.)
Matalan
Mothercare
Oscar de la Renta
Ross Stores (Ross Dress for Less)
Sears
TJX (T.J. Maxx, Marshalls)
Urban Outfitters (Anthropologie, Free People Nuuly)
Walmart (Asda, George Brands)
BRANDS WHO'VE AGREED
TO #PAYUP
BRANDS WHO HAVE AGREED TO #PAYUP*
Updated as of 9/18/20 (Please click the
WRC Brand tracker for the latest list! Media,
please use the WRC brand Tracker list
and not this one!) Business & Human Rights Resource Centre is also updating a brand Covid-19 tracker, which has more detailed information about company commitments here.
adidas
ASOS
Gap (Old Navy, Athleta, Banana Republic)
H&M
Inditex/Zara
Kiabi
Levi Strauss & Co.
LPP
Lululemon Athletica
Marks & Spencer
Moschino
Next
Nike
Primark
PVH (Calvin Klein, Tommy Hilfiger)
Target (USA)
Ralph Lauren Corp. (Polo)
Target
Tesco
Under Armour
Uniqlo
VF Corporation (The North Face, Vans, Timberland)
*These are brands who've made public commitments to fulfill existing purchase orders to factories, which means they are not asking for discounts or changing the payment terms.
WHAT IS THE #PAYUP CAMPAIGN?
The clothing industry faced disruptions at the onset of coronavirus, with stores closed around the world and consumer demand in dramatic decline. Many major clothing brands and retailers chose to push their financial fallout onto garment workers and factories. In Bangladesh alone, brands cancelled or put on hold over $3 billion worth of completed and in-process clothing orders, putting more than two million workers jobs at risk. The #PayUp campaign demands that brands pay for in-production and completed orders in full and on time, including fabric that factories have already paid for, rather than abandon their supply chain partners and the women who have kept their businesses profitable for decades. This is money rightly owed to factories for work that's already been done or for costs already incurred on behalf of brands and retailers. With no source of income, millions of women who sew our clothes will end up starving on the streets of supplier countries, like Bangladesh, Cambodia and even the United States.
HOW TO PARTICIPATE IN #PAYUP
Tens of thousands of outraged citizens have joined the #PayUp campaign around the world. You can participate, too! @Remake.World on Instagram has resources for tagging and calling out brands. You can sign one of the petitions above, or hop on social media, tag any one of the laggard brands above and ask them to make a public commitment to #PayUp for existing orders and to support garment workers: Dear @BRANDNAME, as a concerned citizen, I demand that you #PayUp and make a public commitment to pay in full for all completed and in-production clothing orders in your supplier factories. This is money fairly owed to factories and garment workers, and the people who make your products might not survive without it.
WHO IS BEHIND #PAYUP?
The #PayUp movement brings together numerous labor rights groups and individual activists. Anyone can join. Among the groups pressuring brands to #PayUp are Remake, the Clean Clothes Campaign, Labour Behind the Label, the International Labor Rights Forum, and the United Students Against Sweatshops, and Extinction Rebellion! Feel free to create your own #PayUp campaign mentioning one of the brands above.
HOW DID #PAYUP START?
The #PayUp hashtag was used by labor rights groups after the Rana Plaza building collapse in Bangladesh to call on brands and retailers to pay full and fair compensation to injured workers and families of the deceased. In the context of the coronavirus, the #PayUp hashtag is used to demand brands pay for cancelled orders in their supplier factories. A March 2020 report by the PennState Center for Global Worker Rights and the Worker Rights Consortium surveyed over 300 supplier factories in Bangladesh, which highlighted the disastrous impacts created by cancellations in one garment-producing country. Among the report's findings: In a majority of factories, brands had cancelled completed and in-process orders, refused to pay for sewing or fabric, and most factories had to close down and let go of workers without pay. Among the factories experiencing cancellations, 91.3% of buyers refused to pay for sewing, and about three-fourths refused to pay for fabric. What's more, the report found that the brands involved were huge global companies, including Primark, Target (USA), VF Corporation, H&M, Inditex/Zara, PVH, JC Penney, Marks & Spencer and others, amounting to over $1 billion in cancelled orders. After receiving the report’s findings, some brands agreed to #PayUp, including H&M, Inditex/Zara, PVH, and VF, and after the report’s publication additional brands like Marks & Spencer changed course. But the list of brands cancelling orders has also grown in the weeks since. The #PayUp movement brings together labor rights groups and individual activists to urge ALL brands and retailers to protect garment workers impacted by the coronavirus.
Help save the lives of millions of women. Demand brands #PayUp.