Workers Who Make Black Friday Deals Possible Face Attacks on Right to Organize

With clothing companies that will be offering discounted Black Friday deals this week relying heavily on the labor of tens of millions underpaid and overworked garment workers across the Global South , two reports by the human rights group Amnesty International make the case that ensuring these employees are afforded the right to organize their workplaces is key to ending worker exploitation across the fashion industry.

The organization interviewed 64 garment workers in Bangladesh , Sri Lanka, India , and Pakistan from 2023-24, including 12 union organizers and labor rights activists, for its report titled Stitched Up , about the denial of freedom of association for workers in the four countries.

Two-thirds of the workers Amnesty interviewed were women, reflecting the f