About us

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We, the working group Global Garment Workers’ Solidarity Network (GGW SoliNet), are an alliance of (grassroot) labor unions, initiatives and politically interested individuals, wanting to support labor struggles in the textile industry. Coming together to accompany dismissed garment workers of Dragon Group factories in Dhaka, Bangladesh, in their fight for outstanding wages, the need for a working group quickly emerged in order to keep standing in solidarity with workers and carry their struggle into society along the value-added chain of production.

In this highly globalised and capitalist world, we emphasize to look at systemic connections!

The excessive consumption of clothing can only take place to this extend because workers in the textile industry are exploited. Wage gaps and precarious working conditions only too clearly show the system of class society beyond national borders. Our goal must therefore be to critically question the modes of production with a global and anti-capitalist orientation and, in turn, to actively fight them on the ground together.

Since our network is made up of a wide variety of groups and individuals, there is a broad spectrum of possible forms of support. It starts with a critical analysis of the conditions, their media preparation, online mobilisation, direct and decentralised actions, up to the concrete support of textile workers on the ground and their collectivist self-organisation.