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Successful Remediation of Mass Firing, Violent Threats at Collegiate Factory in Cambodia
Country: Cambodia
Issues: Freedom of Association Violations, Gender-based Violence and Discrimination
To: WRC Affiliate Universities and Colleges From: Bent Gehrt and Ben Hensler Date: March 28, 2024 Re: Successful Remediation of Mass Firing, Violent Threats at Collegiate Factory in Cambodia Please find here a new report on the WRC’s investigation and successful remediation of violent threats, mass firing, and other retaliation against worker leaders at the…
A Fight for Union Choice at a Turkish Supplier Puts Levi’s in Hot Seat
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Issues: Freedom of Association Violations
Concerns remain despite Adidas supplier remediating Cambodia workers
Country: Cambodia
Issues: Freedom of Association Violations
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
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…