This week's GWD blog updates the project in Bangladesh thru April '22. Due to increased income last month a few quality of life indicators we track hit their best marks in the past 2 years. The equation seems simple: better pay for workers = better lives workerdiaries.org/garment-worker…

This week's Garment Worker Diaries blog is part one in a series which will document the rise in the share of workers in #Bangladesh working excess hours. We believe these data show that the current global apparel supply chain is operating unsustainably: workerdiaries.org/excess-work-ho…

Garment workers in Bangladesh shared their personal stories with us through video in Dec '21. The worker featured here lives in Narayanganj & relays her educational background & aspirations for her children: "I never want my children to even see a garment factory in their lives."

In this week's Garment Worker Diaries blog we look at the relationship between excess work hours & forced labor, leveraging the strength of the Diaries methodology to ask workers questions that speak to the on-going due diligence policy dialogue in Europe: workerdiaries.org/excess-work-ho…

This week's Garment Worker Diaries blog brings the project up to date in Bangladesh through May 2022. Click through to see all of the infographics and get the full story: workerdiaries.org/garment-worker… #bangladesh #whomademyclothes #garmentworkers #workersvoices #workerdiaries

In this 3rd blog in our Excess Work Hours series we start to analyze excess work hours among garment workers by additional variables including regions within Bangladesh & whether a garment factory's name appears on certain publicly available supplier lists workerdiaries.org/excess-work-ho…

This week #garmentworkers in #Bangladesh share with #OpenDiaries their clothes shopping preferences, including whether they prefer to sew or purchase clothes & how often they purchase new clothes. Full post here: instagram.com/p/Ckgrp1Kp_I4/ #whomademyclothes #workersvoices

This week's Garment Worker Diaries blog brings the project up to date in Bangladesh through Sep 2022. There were some interesting developments, including the overall share of respondents reporting an illness dropping to some of the lowest levels yet: workerdiaries.org/garment-worker…

This week's Garment Worker Diaries blog sees us discussing different aspects of well-being with workers in Bangladesh. We ask respondents to describe any physical & mental exhaustion they might experience at work, as well as their stress & energy levels: workerdiaries.org/worker-well-be…

This week's Garment Worker Diaries blog post (guest-written by SANEM) introduces the EUs HREDD regulations & discusses the potential impacts of the regulations to the RMG sector in Bangladesh (a Bangla language version of the blog is also available): workerdiaries.org/the-eus-hredd-…

This week's Garment Worker Diaries blog discusses how Bangladesh's ready-made garment sector can comply with the European Union's Human Rights and Due Diligence (HREDD) directives (the draft of EU Directive on Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence, CSDD) workerdiaries.org/complying-with…

This week's Garment Worker Diaries blog post, again guest-written by our partner SANEM, focuses on perhaps the most important aspect of the RMG industry's mandate to comply with new Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence directives: worker well-being workerdiaries.org/well-being-of-…

This week's GWD blog is the 4th in a series written by our partner in Bangladesh SANEM The series focuses on the challenges the RMG sector faces & the opportunities available to propel the industry & garment workers into sustainably competitive futures workerdiaries.org/towards-a-sust…

In this week's Garment Worker Diaries blog we discuss the answers to questions #garmentworkers in #Bangladesh answered for us & SANEM regarding dangers in the workplace, both occupational & interpersonal workerdiaries.org/workplace-haza… #whomademyclothes #workersvoices #workerdiaries

In this week's Garment Worker Diaries blog we discuss why we believe the minimum living wage in #Bangladesh needs to be updated from time to time & for the calculations used to determine that range to also be subject to update & refinement when necessary workerdiaries.org/living-wage-ca…

This week's Garment Worker Diaries blog is an update on the project in #Bangladesh through the end of 2022. December of that year marked 33 straight months of data collection in Bangladesh, beginning with the onset of COVID-19 in April 2020 workerdiaries.org/garment-worker… #workerdiaries

This week, #garmentworkers in #Bangladesh share with #OpenDiaries what the weekly Garment Worker Diaries surveys mean to them. Among other responses, 99% of workers reported that they liked participating in the survey. See here for the full slideshow: workerdiaries.org/open-diaries/

This week, #OpenDiaries reveals Bangladeshi respondents' favorite and least favorite aspects of working in the garment industry. For the full slideshow you can find this and all of our #OpenDiaires posts at workerdiaries.org/open-diaries/

This week in #OpenDiaries #garmentworkers in #Bangladesh share their day-to-day highlights, providing an intimate look into their daily routines. They also share with us how they would use extra income if their pay were to increase (many said they would save money for their kids)

This week garment workers answer 2 questions regarding their future in the garment industry: Do you wish to remain a garment worker for the rest of your career? And, do you believe that the Worker Diaries project can help improve the garment industry for workers in the long run?