Our Standards

At The Labour Movement we work to ensure every product you purchase is made under Fair Trade standards. We vet each of our brands on the core components of Fair Trade.

Every one of the products found here are made with a commitment to uphold, defend and continually expand on the practical application of these principles:

  • No forced labour

    Every brand that sells on The Labour Movement has made a commitment to actively prevent forced and child labour in its supply chain

  • Fair wages

    Our brands commit themselves to ensuring workers are paid living wages throughout their value chains

  • No harassment or abuse

    Our brands work closely with their manufacturers and producers to prevent physical and mental abuse within their labour chains

  • Decent working conditions

    Brands selling on The Labour Movement focus on ensuring a safe, healthy, and equitable workplace throughout their supply chains

  • Freedom of association

    All brands selling here recognize the rights of labourers in their value chains to collective bargaining and freedom of association

  • Regulatory compliance

    Our brands maintain oversight of their supply chain partners to ensure local laws and regulations are respected

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Our vetting process

Certification organizations

The majority of our brands maintain third-party certifications or memberships with reputable Fair Trade organizations. If they do, we review their certifications to ensure it is up to date and meets our own standards for Fair Trade practices.

Our vetting process

Small batch & handmade

Some of our sellers are very small organizations or single artisans for whom a certification is prohibitively expensive. In these cases we gather documentation from from the brand such as paid invoices from manufacturers, statements on their founding principles, receipts for raw materials purchased, photographic evidence from visits to suppliers, and more to verify that they are actively practicing the principles we stand for.

Our vetting process

Continous review

We review each seller on The Labour Movement annually to ensure their commitment to Fair Trade standards are strong and continuing to expand.

We go to lengths to ensure the products we list here meet our standards, but it is possible that some unscrupulous person will slip through our vetting and review process.

If you have concerns about a brand or product selling on The Labour Movement we take that concern seriously. Report it to us for investigation.

Our vetting process

The future

As we grow, one of the core missions we have is to develop our own coaching and certification system which provides a guided road to Fair Trade certification, and which is both is accessible to any brand and robust enough to ensure the highest standards of Fair Trade practices.

Sadly, there is no perfect system for ethical production that exists today.

As each of us puts our dollars into ethically produced goods, the demand will grow and grow, and commerce the world over will become more and more ethical, throughout the global supply chain.

As we grow as a movement, together we will all create the demand for higher and higher ethical and humane treatment of labourers worldwide, and thereby ethical standards will rise to meet that new demand.

Together we must create the demand for a world where not a single dollar is spent on human suffering.