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Belabored: The Power of Alt-Labor
Published: April 23, 2021
Myanmar military junta arrests prominent trade union leader
Published: April 19, 2021
Rongson (Myanmar) Co. Ltd.
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…
Myanmar Royal Apollo Garment Factory
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…
The Myanmar Coup
Published: February 10, 2021
February 10, 2021 Dear Colleagues, The military coup last week in Myanmar is a cruel setback for the cause of democracy and has significant implications for the global apparel supply chain and for university apparel. It was the advent of civilian rule in Myanmar in 2015, after decades of dictatorship, that led to the lifting of US…
Popular International Garment Co., Ltd.
Published: November 19, 2020
The WRC’s assessment of Popular Garment identified numerous violations of Burmese labor law, international labor conventions, and university codes of conduct. These included violations of the right of freedom of association, wage theft, illegal short-term contracts, harassment and abuse by management, and occupational health and safety violations among others.
New Report: Popular Garment (Myanmar/Burma)
Published: November 19, 2020
Dear Colleagues, We wanted to share with you the WRC’s report on labor rights violations at the factory, Popular Garment, in Yangon, Myanmar (Burma). Popular Garment had been disclosed by Cutter & Buck, as one of the latter’s suppliers for apparel licensed by universities affiliated with the WRC. The WRC’s assessment of Popular Garment identified…
Challenging the Status Quo: Helping Workers Protect their Associational Rights in Myanmar
Published: January 15, 2020
Freedom of association is a fundamental and critical right allowing workers to collectively demand better working conditions. Yet factory management around the world often deny workers this right, illegally terminating union leaders, and sometimes employing violence to quell union organizing. Buyers at the top of the supply chain generally fail to detect such violations or…