Our impact
The WRC is a leading labor rights organization with over two decades of experience exposing and remedying workplace violations in global supply chains. By consistently holding brands at the top of supply chains to account when implementing remedy in full, the WRC has set strategic precedents for trans-national corporate accountability and rule of law, concretely shifting the dial on what workers can achieve.
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Number of countries where WRC has secured remedies at factories
266,100
Workers impacted after union leader reinstatement
$175m
Total amount of compensation secured for workers
711
Cases where remedy was achieved
256
Number of brands involved in directly remediating
715,208
Total workers the WRC has supported directly
Through our pursuit of remedy for labor rights violations, the WRC has contributed to meaningful, measurable change in the lives of garment workers by materially improving their livelihoods. The compensation we help secure for workers is not just monetary: it represents restored dignity, increased access to essential needs, and expanded opportunities for workers and their families.
When workers receive back pay for stolen wages or are reinstated to jobs from which they were unlawfully dismissed, the impact is transformative. In many cases, the compensation received is the largest single sum of money the worker will receive at one time during their entire lifetime. These funds enable children to return to school, families to access healthcare, and critically, women to gain a degree of financial independence and dignity.
Far-reaching impact
While our approach – uncovering abuses, winning remedies, and upholding the rule of law – begins at the individual factory level, it often sparks broader change. When a violation at one factory reveals a wider pattern of labor abuses ignored by brands and employers, we help workers challenge it across all affected workplaces. By holding brands and employers accountable case by case and identifying these covert patterns of abuses, we drive lasting and transformational improvements across entire supply chains.
The WRC has played a key role in developing and launching some of the most innovative and effective labor rights initiatives of the last decade, including the gender-based violence and harassment agreement covering the entire Nien Hsing workforce in Lesotho, the binding safety accords in Bangladesh and Pakistan, the Central Java Agreement for Gender Justice in Indonesia, and the union-management agreement covering the entire Fruit of the Loom workforce in Honduras that guarantees the right to organize and bargain collectively.
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