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‘Step Up and Pay’: Factory Layoffs Pushing Workers Back to the Brink

Published: December 16, 2022

What Does the World Cup Have to Do With Garment Workers? Plenty.

Published: November 30, 2022

Severance pay remains a struggle for Southeast Asian workers

Published: August 10, 2022

Back Pay Secured for Workers Denied Wages at Indonesian Factory Decorating Collegiate Goods for adidas, Columbia Sportswear, Fanatics

Published: May 2, 2022

To: WRC Affiliate Universities and Colleges From: Rola Abimourched and Bent Gehrt Date: May 2, 2022 Re: Back Pay Secured for Workers Denied Wages at Indonesian Factory Decorating Collegiate Goods for adidas, Columbia Sportswear, Fanatics This case brief discusses the Worker Rights Consortium’s investigation and the remediation of violations of labor law and university codes…

Fashion brands said ‘never again’ but women are still being exploited in supply chains

Published: April 24, 2022

WRC Secures $2.9 Million in Back Pay for Workers Who Made University Apparel in Indonesia

Published: January 20, 2022

January 20, 2022 Dear Colleagues, Please find here a case brief concerning labor rights violations and remediation at a collegiate factory in Indonesia. Here are the key points: Through three years of work, the WRC has secured $2.9 million in previously unpaid compensation for 1,301 workers at a factory that made university apparel for Gear for…

PT Hansoll Hyun

Published: January 20, 2022

Hansoll Hyun closed without paying workers millions of dollars in legally mandated severance and other compensation. Prior to its closure, Hansoll Hyun produced university-licensed apparel for Gear for Sports (Hanesbrands). Other customers of the factory, for non-collegiate goods, included Abercrombie & Fitch, Hansoll Textile (a company with a similar name but no corporate relationship to…

Weakening Legal Protections for Garment Workers in Asia

Published: May 27, 2021

May 27, 2021 Dear colleagues, Over the past year, the WRC has tracked a disturbing trend: as their populations faced the ravages of Covid, the governments of several garment-producing countries in Asia acted to strip away and undermine worker protections, a move often framed as a way to attract new investment. In Indonesia and India,…

PT Victory Chingluh

Published: April 6, 2021

The apparel industry’s chronically low wages left most garment workers with no savings on the eve of the Covid-19 crisis. Since most governments in apparel exporting countries provide little or no unemployment benefits, the only thing standing between an out-of-work garment worker and immediate poverty for her family are the legally mandated severance benefits that…

PT Taekwang