The fund would serve as a unified clearinghouse that would collect payments from brands and maintain a transparent database of injured and dead workers, said Tessel Pauli of the Amsterdam-based CleanClothes Campaign, which is among the groups working to create the fund.
The CleanClothes Campaign, a charity group lobbying to improve working conditions in the garment industry, on Monday condemned a recent move by the European Union to relax restrictions on Myanmar, a step that could open the way for more garment manufacturing in the formerly military-run country.