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Violet Apparel Co. Ltd.

Published: June 14, 2023

The July 1, 2020, closure of Violet Apparel Co. Ltd. in Phnom Penh, Cambodia—a supplier of non-collegiate apparel to Nike and UK brand, Matalan—left 1,284 workers unemployed with less than one week’s notice. Violet Apparel was owned by textile and apparel conglomerate, Ramatex, which operates more than 20 production facilities around the world, including three…

Hulu Garment Co. Ltd.

Published: April 10, 2023

The apparel industry’s chronically low wages left most garment workers with no savings on the eve of the Covid-19 crisis. Since most governments in apparel exporting countries provide little or no unemployment benefits, the only thing standing between an out-of-work garment worker and immediate poverty for her family in early 2020 were the legally mandated…

Update: Breakthrough at Trax Apparel (Cambodia)

Published: February 17, 2023

To: WRC Affiliate Universities and Colleges From: Ben Hensler, Bent Gehrt, and Scott Nova Date: February 17, 2023 Re: Update: Breakthrough at Trax Apparel (Cambodia) Over the last week, the WRC has been in close communication with adidas regarding Trax Apparel. As you know, the WRC determined, in a report issued to schools last fall,…

Update: Adidas’s Refusal to Correct University Code Violations at Trax Apparel (Cambodia)

Published: January 30, 2023

To: WRC Affiliate Universities and Colleges From: Ben Hensler and Scott Nova Date: January 30, 2023 Re: Update: Adidas’s Refusal to Correct University Code Violations at Trax Apparel (Cambodia) In light of adidas’s ongoing refusal to require Trax Apparel, an adidas collegiate apparel supplier in Cambodia, to rehire worker leaders that the factory fired in…

B.D. Cambodia

Published: December 16, 2022

The WRC worked with licensees to resolve a case in which B.D.Cambodia illegally terminated a workplace leader, made a legally binding commitment to reinstate him as part of a mediation process facilitated by the Cambodian government, and then refused to follow through on its commitment. When the worker attempted to return to work at the…

Code Compliance Successes in Ethiopia, Bangladesh, India, and Cambodia

Published: December 16, 2022

To: WRC Affiliate Universities and Colleges From: Jessica Champagne and Scott Nova Date: December 16, 2022 Re: Code Compliance Successes in Ethiopia, Bangladesh, India, and Cambodia As we near the end of 2022, we write to provide brief updates on four cases that were resolved this year. In each case, the WRC documented violations of…

Who Made Your World Cup Jersey?

Published: December 1, 2022