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Global Coalition Calls on Companies Not to Dump Forced Labour-Made Goods in Non-US Markets

Today, as the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act (UFLPA) comes into…

June 21, 2022
Commentary

Target Supplier JNB Global Fires Workers and Steals Severance

Overview: The WRC recently documented violations of worker rights at the Guatemalan garment…

June 16, 2022
Press Release

Thai Workers Win Historic $8.3 Million in Back Pay, Financed by Victoria’s Secret

More than 1,250 Thai workers who sewed bras for Victoria’s Secret, Lane Bryant,…

May 25, 2022
Commentary

Workers at Two Guatemala Garment Factories Overcome a History of Violence and Vindicate Associational Rights

The WRC helped workers organizing unions at Guatemalan factories owned by Korean multinational…

February 24, 2022
Commentary

80,000 Shahi Exports Workers Will Finally Get Their Back Pay

In a major breakthrough in the efforts of the Garment and Textile Workers'…

February 2, 2022
Press Release

Worker Rights Consortium and Worker Representatives Secure $1 Million Humanitarian Contribution from Barco Uniforms to Address Unpaid Severance at Closed Supplier Factory in El Salvador

The WRC is pleased to report that Southern California-based Barco Uniforms, Inc. has…

December 23, 2021
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Commentary

Testimony from Workers Who Benefitted from Barco’s Contribution of $1 Million

“This is a joyful day that we thought…

December 23, 2021
Press Release

Heartless at Heart and Mind: Cheated of severance, Thai workers who sewed kids’ clothes for El Corte Inglés struggle to feed and house their own children

Denial of legally due severance inflicts many hardships on garment workers. Due to…

December 17, 2021
Press Release

Coalition Calls Passage of Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act a Defeat for Corporations Complicit in Forced Labor and a Huge Victory for Uyghur Human Rights

On the passage of the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act, the …

December 16, 2021
Press Release

Worker Rights Consortium Urges Apparel Brands to Join International Safety Accord on Anniversary of Deadly Factory Fire

Since the International Accord for Health and Safety in the Textile and Garment…

December 13, 2021
Commentary

Daw Myo Myo Aye, leader of the STUM Union, is released from prison, but the threat to trade unionists and workers in Myanmar remains high

After six months of detainment in Myanmar’s notorious, Covid-ridden Insein prison,[1] Daw…

December 1, 2021
Press Release

On Anniversary of Bangladesh’s Deadliest Garment Factory Fire, Worker Rights Consortium Urges Walmart and Other Laggard Retailers to Join Acclaimed Safety Program

Two months after the International Accord for Health and Safety in the Textile…

November 24, 2021