Factory: Trax Apparel
Key Buyers: adidas, New Balance, Triform Custom Apparel
Last Updated: 2023
Case Summary
The WRC identified multiple violations of Cambodian law and university labor standards at Trax Apparel, a collegiate supplier to adidas, including the illegal firing of eight workers in retaliation for forming a union to seek to better working conditions. After extensive engagement with adidas, management reinstated four of the eight leaders, however, with only partial back pay and has subjected them to discriminatory treatment since their return. adidas has declined to require Trax Apparel to take further corrective action. The WRC continues to urge adidas to fulfill its obligations to its university licensors and require its supplier to remedy all violations of university labor standards.
Read More:
- WRC Factory Assessment: Trax Apparel (Cambodia) Co., Ltd. Findings, Recommendations, Company Response, Current Status of Remediation – October 20, 2022
- Update: Adidas’s Refusal to Correct University Code Violations at Trax Apparel (Cambodia) – January 30, 2023
- Update: Breakthrough at Trax Apparel (Cambodia) – February 17, 2023
In the News:
- Who Made Your World Cup Jersey? – The New York Times, December 1, 2022
- EXCLUSIVE: England’s £115 Qatar World Cup shirts made by Thai factory workers paid just £1 an hour – The Mirror, November 18, 2022
- Sweatpants sales are booming, but the workers who make them are earning even less – Vox, February 22, 2022