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Tariff Turmoil: Will Fashion Brands Step Up or Will They Step on Workers?
Brands face calls to refrain from pushing the costs of tariffs onto suppliers. Workers’ rights and livelihoods are at risk if brands fail to act responsibly now.
First Half of 2025: WRC Investigations Secured
$9 Million in Back Pay
Supported by the WRC and their unions, 7,000 garment workers in 8 countries are finally getting the money they legally earned.
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A Wealthy Industrialist Stole $5 Million from Thai Garment Workers and Refuses to Pay It Back. Leading Apparel Brands Keep Doing Business with Him Anyway.
Industrialist Robert Ng deprived 900 low-wage workers at his Thai production facility of $5 million in legally mandated compensation. Five years later, he still refuses to pay workers the money owed to them. His recalcitrance is being enabled by leading apparel brands and retailers in the US and Europe that continue to reward him with…
14 Years’ Wages for Illegally Fired Worker Leader from Haitian Factory
Despite widespread gang violence and the collapse of civil authority in Haiti, the WRC has continued achieving concrete remedies for violations of workers’ rights in the country—including securing justice for worker leaders fired for speaking out against abusive conditions. In May 2025, the WRC achieved a settlement equivalent to 14 full years’ wages for the…
A Leading Garment Brand Exits the High Road
Fruit of the Loom, which made groundbreaking commitments in 2009 to ensure that its employees in Honduras could exercise their legal right to form unions freely and without retaliation, is now in the final stages of closing its two remaining unionized garment factories in the country. These closures are tragic for the thousands of workers affected: for nearly 15 years, they enjoyed respect for their right to freedom of association and better wages and conditions achieved through collective bargaining.
Cintas Offshores Unionbusting to Haiti
Leading Uniform Maker Won’t Require Haitian Supplier Factory to Rehire Worker Leaders Despite political chaos, rampant gang violence, and a near total breakdown in the rule of law, Haiti has remained a significant production hub for employee workwear for the US market. This has been due to trade preferences and because the poverty-stricken country has…