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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
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
Broken threads: College clothing made in factories rife with labor violations, poverty wages
Country: Global
Issues: Abuse and Harassment, Covid-19, Freedom of Association Violations, Gender-based Violence and Discrimination, LGBTQ, Living Wage, Safety Accords, Wage and hour violations, Wage Theft, Workplace Health and Safety
Thai Garment Export 1/3
Country: Thailand
Issues: Freedom of Association Violations, Gender-based Violence and Discrimination, Wage Theft
2020–2023 Unpaid Severance Buyers: Peter Millar, L.L Bean, Burberry At the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020, the WRC found that Thai Garment Exports’ dismissal of 43 Burmese migrant workers did not comply with Thai law regarding severance rights. In response, 28 of the terminated workers brought a claim for unpaid severance in the…
WRC Secures Rehiring and a Year of Back Pay for 83 Illegally Fired Workers in Haiti
Country: Haiti
Issues: Freedom of Association Violations, Wage Theft
To: WRC Affiliate Universities and Colleges From: Tara Mathur and Ben Hensler Date: July 14, 2023 Re: WRC Secures Rehiring and a Year of Back Pay for 83 Illegally Fired Workers in Haiti The WRC has secured one year’s back pay and rehiring for 83 workers who were illegally fired, then blacklisted, by two garment…
Centri Group
Country: Haiti
Issues: Freedom of Association Violations, Wage Theft
In 2022, the WRC conducted an investigation and found that the Haitian factory, Centri Group, committed violations of freedom of association by firing 64 of its employees. The factory retaliated against this group of workers, which it held responsible for an employee-wide work stoppage to protest unpaid overtime. The WRC found that Centri Group’s dismissal…
One Year Back Pay, Rehiring for Haitian Workers Fired over Wage Protest
Country: Haiti
Issues: Freedom of Association Violations, Wage Theft
After nearly a year of investigation and engagement by the WRC, Centri Group, a garment factory in Haiti that supplies the Canadian apparel company, Gildan Activewear, has committed to remedy violations of its workers’ fundamental right to freedom of association. As previously reported, a WRC investigation had found that, in 2022, Centri Group violated its…
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…