Campaigners have been battling for an ethical fashion industry ever since the first sweatshop scandals broke back in the 1990s.Even now, Ethical Consumer magazine's latest buyers' guide reveals that a sweat-free high street is still a long way off. Anton Marcus, joint secretary of the Free Trade Zones and General Services Employees Union in Sri Lanka believes the single biggest barrier to progress is access to free trade unions:"Our biggest fight is with the supplier companies who are strongly anti-union and the government, which refuses to implement its International Labour Organisation commitments and allow our garment workers to join unions." Progress might be slow, but it's not all doom and gloom. Take the example of the campaign led by the Responsible Sourcing Network to stop forced child labour in Uzbekistan's cotton industry. Over 60 global clothing companies, including Adidas and H&M, have now committed to ban Uzbek cotton from their supply chains until slave labour is abolished.[also refers to Benetton, River Island,TK Maxx (part of TJX)]