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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 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.
WRC Engagement with US Workwear Company Leads to Full Compensation for Haitian Workers
When the garment factory Haiti Premier Apparel closed in April 2023, roughly 100 of its former workers in that country did not receive their legally required severance. However, thanks to a contribution from the US workwear company Careismatic Brands, which is a former buyer from the factory, the workers will now be paid in full….
$4 Million in Severance Theft Averted in Honduras
In November 2024, Stretchline Central America announced to its roughly 300 workers that it would soon close—without paying an estimated $4 million in legally mandated severance. The WRC pressed the factory to honor its obligations under Honduran law and university codes. Stretchline Central America reversed course and paid workers in full—providing, on average, more than $13,000 per employee, nearly 2.5 years’ wages for Honduran garment workers.
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…