Image How NEXT removed its only unionised workforce in Sri Lanka Fashion giant NEXT dismissed 1,416 workers from its only unionised factory in Sri Lanka via WhatsApp. 19 May 2026
Image More debt won't solve Sri Lanka's debt crisis Sri Lanka's severe political and financial crisis means millions are unable to afford food. This is a crisis driven by international debt. 29 July 2022
Image We will never stop fighting for workers' rights Decent work and a living wage are not only basic rights, but a key route out of poverty. Through organising, the collective voice of workers has won rights and decent work for millions of people. 29 April 2022
Garment Workers: Paying the price of the pandemic A webinar discussing the fight for garment workers rights in light of the recent establishment of the International accord. 22 September 2021
Image Make Amazon Pay Amazon is amassing power in ways that threaten a future of inequality, poverty and irreversible climate change. 28 May 2021
Image Rana Plaza Never Again War on Want joins with trade unions in Bangladesh and the Clean Clothes Campaign to demand that the Rana Plaza disaster never happens again. 23 April 2021
Image Why union-busting must go out of fashion at Next Garment workers at a Next-owned factory in Sri Lanka have formed a trade union. Next has not accepted the union and won't engage in negotiations. 12 March 2021
Image Myanmar coup: Brands must respect the workers’ strike War on Want and 16 other organisations stand in solidarity with the workers in Myanmar 23 February 2021
Image Seventy years fighting against global poverty Labour Research magazine covers our 70th anniversary 11 February 2021
Image Next UK reports huge profits yet denies Sri Lankan garment workers their ‘bonus’ ‘Bonus’ pays for basic necessities garment workers cannot afford with their poverty wages 07 January 2021
Image Multi-millionaire garment brand owners once again fail their workers War on Want and Labour Behind the Label joint statement on Arcadia 11 December 2020
Image Garment workers on the frontline of the pandemic: outbreak in Sri Lanka Over 1,000 Covid-19 cases at a Brandix factory in Sri Lanka 15 October 2020