How to balance the needs of a highly skilled, but vulnerable workforce, with the needs presented at each stage of the supply chain.

ETI is both shocked and saddened by the devastating factory fires in Pakistan which have tragically claimed so many lives. Our condolences go out to the family and friends of these victims.

An update about our programme supporting young women workers in the textile and garment sector in Tamil Nadu, India.

Recent news stories have investigated the conditions within which Olympic and Paralympic branded team kits have been produced, calling into question labour practices in some supplier factories in Indonesia.

ETI has helped bridge a big gap between its member trade unions and companies. But there is still a long way to go before ETI company-union collaboration becomes the norm, rather than the exception.

As the economic ‘recovery' in the West falters, are we prepared to sacrifice our children's education and learning to bring more money into our households to try to maintain our consumerist lifestyles?

"Sunita told me that she works with three or four other women, clearing about 40 tonnes a day of waste stone rubble between them by hand and on their heads."

"The beauty of a good operational or management control is that it multi-tasks, taking care of several risk sources at the same time."

"More than one hundred thousand workers are killed every year at work in India. That's the equivalent of a Bhopal disaster every month." An interview with Stirling Smith.

"HIV/AIDS is a prism through which companies can understand and start to tackle other workers’ rights issues."