We are appalled by news today that migrant workers in southern Spain are facing workers’ rights abuses.

This Friday 24 April, we must stop and remember. This date marks the two year anniversary of a horrific tragedy – the collapse of Bangladesh’s Rana Plaza that took the lives of more than 1,100 workers and injured thousands more.

We have teamed up with the Ethical Trading Initiatives in Denmark and Norway to publish a new briefing on living wages in supply chains. ‘Living wages in global supply chains: a new agenda for business’ was launched in London this week, to an audience of businesses, NGOs, trade unions and stakeholders.

Sabita Banerji gets to the heart of the Living wage issue, and reports on the rallying cry from the Archbishop of York at the recent ETI and Global Compact Network UK’s living wage conference.

Stirling Smith digs into the archives and finds that the campaign for ethical trade was very active a century ago.

If you source from India, keep an eye on labour law changes. Stirling Smith wonders which way India will go.

Workers' ability to negotiate their own terms and conditions of work makes for an effective way of securing ethical trade in supply chains. Our Worker voice and representation course will show you how.

Stirling Smith finds that 1815, and the peace brought about by Waterloo, was a great year for ethical trade with plans developed for model workplaces.