It’s four years since 1,000 people were killed while working in the clothing factory at Rana Plaza in Bangladesh. Finally major fashion companies -- including ASOS, Clarks, and New Look -- are taking real action to prevent another disaster by making public where and under what conditions their clothes are made.

But Primark, Sports Direct and River Island have refused to join them.

This is fast fashion at its worst -- keeping clothes cheap and profits high at the expense of the people who make them. 

The Transparency Pledge calls on major clothing brands to make public where their products are made. 

This simple act means labour rights activists can ensure conditions meet acceptable standards -- and hold retailers accountable for abuses in their supply chains.

Primark, Sports Direct, and River Island have all refused to sign the pledge and make this information public. Sports Direct and River Island haven’t even bothered to respond to the letter.

When the Rana Plaza factory collapsed labour rights activists had to knit together information from survivors’ testimonies and the fragments of labels found in the rubble, to find out which retailers produced clothes in the factory.

By taking the Transparency Pledge major companies are making it easier for labour rights activists and civil society groups to hold them to account. 

Some companies who were asked to sign said that doing so would put them at a commercial disadvantage. Showing many still view their bottom line as more important than their workers.

We’ve had major success pressuring clothing retailers before, over 300,000 of us persuaded Zara, Topshop, and ASOS to stop using barbaric angora products. Let’s do it again!