24th April marked the 10th anniversary of the Rana Plaza building collapse, an incident of industrial homicide that found global fashion brands complicit in the deaths of well over 1000 garment workers and which left thousands more with life changing injuries.

No Sweat has been commemorating this tragic event as part of the Rana Plaza Solidarity Collective, holding a series of protests and events throughout the month.

In this episode Andrew speaks with Nav about her recent trip to Bangladesh where she visited the site of the collapse and met with trade union leaders and workers to discuss how we can support them. Then we head to Toynbee Hall for a live discussion with Mayisha and the TUC's Afzal Rahman about what actually happened on that fateful day, and what has been done since to stop it from ever happening again.

References in this episode:

Rana Plaza Solidarity Collective

Trade Union Congress (TUC)

Nijjor Manush

Taslima Akhter

Bangladesh Garment Worker Solidarity

Bangladesh Garment and Industrial Workers Federation

Rainbow Collective

Tears in the Fabric

Altab Ali Park

Toynbee Hall

Workers Rights Consortium

Labour Behind the Label

Apsana Begum MP

In this final episode of season one, Andrew, Nav and Mayisha reflect on the amazing people they have met in the course of making this podcast, before we descend the steps of London's iconic 100 Club for a special live episode. Plus, Nav gives us the inside scoop on a special protest that disrupted Boohoo's greenwashing fashion event.

In our live show, Andrew sits down with Burmese academic and human rights activist, Dr Maung Zarni, to discuss the latest situation in Myanmar where people are taking up arms against the military dictatorship, and then speaks with Dr Antony Stewart & Aïda Roumer from the Haiti Support group about Western imperialism and garment worker protests in Haiti. Finally the show wouldn't be complete without a little comedy from our host, Andrew O'Neill, upcoming comedian, Sunjai Arif and the legendary Mark Thomas.

References in this episode:

Haiti Support Group

Dr Zarni on Twitter

Batay Ouvriye

All Burma Federation of Trade Unions

Protesting Boohoo

The 100 Club

No Sweat Website

In this episode we delve into the murky world of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and take a closer look at social auditing by speaking to the people exposing how it has failed.

We hear from Amelia Evans, Executive Director at MSI Integrity that conducted a ten year study into multi-stakeholder initiatives and their ability to protect human rights, and from Sarah Newell, Director of Transnational Strategies at the WSR Network, which has developed an alternative system called Worker-Driven Social Responsibility, that is challenging the status quo and putting workers in the driving seat when it comes to ethical change in the workplace.

Sources and organisations referenced in the episode:

• Not Fit For Purpose - MSI Integrity's report
• Beyond Corporations - MSI Integrity's latest project
• Worker-Driven Social Responsibility Network
• Worker Rights Consortium
• Coalition of Immokalee Workers
• Accord on Fire and Building Safety in Bangladesh
• Workers’ Rights Watch in Lesotho
• Milk with Dignity
• Building Dignity and Respect
• Investigation into labour abuse in UK fishing
• Mondragon Corporation
• No Sweat T-shirt Project