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Adidas supplier reinstates sacked workers
Country: Cambodia
Issues: Freedom of Association Violations
Trax Apparel
Country: Cambodia
Issues: Freedom of Association Violations
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 better working conditions. Initially, management reinstated four of the eight leaders, however, with only partial back pay and subjected them…
Premium Apparel
Country: Haiti
Issues: Abuse and Harassment, Freedom of Association Violations, Wage Theft
In November 2023, Premium Apparel closed operations and failed to pay its workers severance and other terminal benefits. The primary buyer, Gildan (which also sourced blanks for the university licensee New Agenda), promptly committed to make full payment of the workers’ severance. Gildan’s contribution of approximately $700,000 was distributed to workers in January 2024.
‘A heightened atmosphere of fear’: Bangladeshi garment workers’ fight for fair pay isn’t over
Country: Bangladesh
Issues: Abuse and Harassment, Freedom of Association Violations, Living Wage, Minimum Wage
Bangladesh Unions Say Garment Workers Are Being Fired for Protesting
Country: Bangladesh
Issues: Freedom of Association Violations, Living Wage, Minimum Wage, Wrongful Termination
Factories producing GW clothing improve working conditions, per report
Country: Global
Issues: Freedom of Association Violations, Gender-based Violence and Discrimination, Health & Safety Violations, Statutory Benefit Violations, Wage Theft
Disastrous Outcome on Wages Made Worse by the Price Workers Are Paying for Speaking Out
Country: Bangladesh
Issues: Abuse and Harassment, Freedom of Association Violations, Living Wage, Minimum Wage
Brands are facing final calls to use their leverage to influence the wage outcome: brands should reject the wage proposal and publicly commit to increase prices to support a wage of US$215 per month during the official 14-day period for submission of objections, which ends November 26.
Garment workers are encountering systematic punishment and retaliation, including violence, arrests, terminations, and killings…
Broken threads: 5 things to know about troubled college clothing industry
Country: Global
Issues: Abuse and Harassment, Covid-19, Forced Labor, Freedom of Association Violations, Gender-based Violence and Discrimination, Living Wage, Wage Theft
Garment Worker Allegedly Shot Dead by Bangladeshi Police as Wage Protests Escalate
Country: Bangladesh
Issues: Abuse and Harassment, Freedom of Association Violations, Violence Against Workers
More Justice, Less Fear, at Adidas Supplier in Cambodia
Country: Cambodia
Issues: Freedom of Association Violations
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…