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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.
So Far in 2025: WRC Investigations Have Secured $13.1 Million in Back Pay
Supported by the WRC and their unions, 10,000 garment workers in eight countries are finally getting the money they legally earned.
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Gap Allowed Haiti Factory to Swindle Pregnant Workers, Carry Out Mass Firing of Union Leaders
US retailer Gap is refusing to require a Haitian factory that makes clothing for its Old Navy stores to reinstate and compensate women workers who were cheated out of maternity benefits after being dismissed during pregnancy, as well as leaders of a factory union who were fired en masse, in violation of Haitian labor laws…
Lucky Brand Joins AEO and Puma to Help Workers Owed $1.5 Million by Guatemalan Subcontractor
The WRC is pleased to report that Lucky Brand has made a humanitarian contribution of $500,000 to assist garment workers at the Industrial Hana factory in Guatemala, which was, prior to its closure, a subcontractor for one of Lucky Brand’s direct apparel suppliers. As the WRC has previously reported, the Industrial Hana factory closed in…
ASICS and MUJI Fail to Remedy Human Rights Abuses at Cambodian Supplier
Japanese Brands Refuse to Hold Supplier Accountable for Wrongful Imprisonment of Worker Leader ASICS and MUJI continue to turn their backs on egregious human rights violations at their Cambodian supplier, Wing Star Shoes. The factory wrongfully imprisoned union leader Chea Chan for more than six months on baseless, retaliatory charges—an outrageous breach of Cambodian labor…
Landmark Redress for Falsely Imprisoned Worker Leader Won with Breakthrough Union Recognition for 20,000 Workers
In a breakthrough for workers’ rights and freedom of association in Cambodia, the WRC is pleased to report sweeping remedies at Wing Star Shoes (WSS), a factory employing roughly 20,000 workers, following years of rights abuses. Union leader Chea Chan, jailed for six months on baseless charges in retaliation for organizing at the ASICS and…