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Outerstuff Provides $1.8 Million to Workers at Collegiate Factory
After WRC exposes mass wage and severance theft at shuttered facility, buyer agrees to cover full back pay; workers made clothes with university, NFL, and Disney logos.
Reinstatement and Back Pay for Five Women Leaders at Cambodian Luggage Factory
Workers who organized a union to fight for nursing breaks for new mothers, and other improvements, were terminated and threatened with sexual assault. After reinstatement, the union gained 1,200 members.
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Guatemalan Factory That Produced Lucky Brands, American Eagle, Hanesbrands, and Gillz Closed Owing Workers $1.4 Million in Severance
Industrial Hana, a garment factory in Guatemala, permanently closed operations in October 2023. The factory shuttered operations on October 5, violating Guatemalan labor law by failing to pay severance to its 229 employees. Workers at the factory reported that, prior to its closure, the factory produced garments, under subcontracting relationships with other local manufacturers, for…
More Justice, Less Fear, at Adidas Supplier in Cambodia
Trax Apparel—a sportswear factory in Cambodia, disclosed as a supplier to Triform Custom Apparel, adidas’s licensee for collegiate apparel—has reinstated and provided legally owed back pay to workers whom the factory unlawfully dismissed in 2020, following a WRC investigation and subsequent engagement with adidas for corrective action. This case underscores the critical role of collegiate…
Three Years Later, Workers at Nike Supplier Are Still Owed over $800,000
Hong Seng Knitting continues to refuse to provide back pay to more than 99 percent of the affected workers and continues to refuse to pay meaningful compensation to the Burmese migrant worker who was forced to flee the country after management reported him to the police…
WRC Secures Five Months’ Wages in Unpaid Severance for Workers of Former Workwear Factory in Haiti
This past holiday season, former workers of Horizon Manufacturing, a garment factory in Haiti that made work uniforms for export to the United States, received more than $300,000 to correct nonpayment of severance they had been owed by the facility owner, since the factory closed in April 2022. Top workwear companies, Edwards Garment and Aramark…