{"id":13315,"date":"2025-10-22T08:43:46","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T12:43:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stg-workersrightsconsortium-staging.kinsta.cloud\/?post_type=team&p=13315"},"modified":"2026-02-26T15:05:55","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T20:05:55","slug":"scott-nova","status":"publish","type":"team","link":"https:\/\/wrc.goodbear.co.uk\/my\/about\/team\/scott-nova\/","title":{"rendered":"Scott Nova"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Scott Nova<\/h1>\n
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Scott Nova has served as Executive Director of the Worker Rights Consortium since its founding in 2000. At the WRC, Scott has led labor rights investigations at dozens of garment factories in fifteen countries and negotiated settlements with leading apparel corporations that have allowed thousands of illegally fired trade unionists to return to work, delivered tens of millions of dollars in back pay to garment workers, and secured a broad range of other labor rights remedies. <\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n
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Scott has initiated and helped negotiate groundbreaking enforceable agreements between global brands, labor unions, and NGOs to protect associational rights, combat workplace abuse, and secure life-saving safety renovations at garment factories. These enforceable pacts, involving such brands as H&M, Levi\u2019s, Tommy Hilfiger and Fruit of the Loom, have brought documented improvements for millions of garment workers.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Scott has worked with licensing directors and other administrators at universities across the US and Canada to enforce the binding labor rights obligations these institutions have placed on the apparel brands that make university logo clothing. He developed the WRC\u2019s global enforcement program for university labor standards, which covers more than a thousand factories globally, fielding complaints from workers, documenting violations, and securing remedies.\u00a0Scott has served as an expert resource on labor rights and corporate behavior in global supply chains for US government agencies, Congressional committees, socially responsible investors, trade unions, and others. He has spoken on these subjects to audiences across the US and internationally and has been interviewed by a broad range of print and broadcast media. Scott has written for the New York Times<\/em>, The Guardian, CNN, the Journal of Commerce, The Nation, Boston Review <\/em>and other publications and news outlets and has contributed chapters to academic and popular volumes, including \u201cOutsourcing Horror: Why Workers Are Still Dying, One Hundred Years After Triangle Shirtwaist,\u201d in Achieving Worker Rights in the Global Economy<\/em>. Scott holds a BA in Government from Dartmouth College.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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