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After identifying labor rights violations at the Estofel facility, the WRC worked jointly with the University of Washington and the FLA to achieve significant remediation. When the factory closed in November 2007, management failed to pay workers a large portion of the severance and other terminal compensation owed to them by law.
Read MoreStyle Avenue was found to have multiple and repeated labor rights violations, including forced overtime, illegal terminations, verbal abuse by management, failure to respect freedom of association, locking workers in the factory, excessive heat, and unsanitary conditions.
Read MoreTo: WRC Affiliate Universities and Colleges From: Scott Nova and Jessica Champagne Date: July 6, 2012 Re: WRC Update: Style Avenue (El Salvador) On October 13, 2011, the Worker Rights Consortium reported to affiliated colleges and universities about an investigative report released by the Institute for Global Labor and Human Rights (GLHR, formerly known as…
Read MoreTo: WRC Affiliate Colleges and Universities From: Scott Nova Date: October 13, 2011 Re: NGO Report on Style Avenue Factory The Institute for Global Labour and Human Rights (formerly the National Labor Committee) released an investigative report yesterday on a factory in El Salvador that makes university logo children’s wear for two licensees, Outerstuff and…
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Thai El Monte Garment Workers Inducted into US Labor Hall of Honor
Twenty-eight years ago last month, consumers opened their newspapers to learn that sweatshops had returned to the US apparel industry, on domestic soil, under conditions unheard of in nearly a century. In August 1995, more than 70 Thai migrant workers were found to be sewing garments sold by major US retailers, under slave labor conditions,…
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