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When Lean-In Feminism Reaches the Factory Floor
Published: May 12, 2021
How Designers Can Support India’s Artisans and Factories Amid the COVID-19 Crisis
Published: May 7, 2021
Texport Creation
Published: April 6, 2021
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 are the legally mandated severance benefits that…
Garden City Fashions
Published: April 6, 2021
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 are the legally mandated severance benefits that…
Dress Master Apparel Private Ltd.
Published: April 6, 2021
Dress Master Apparel Private Ltd., a Gap supplier in Bangalore, India, closed in May 2020, leaving 1,200 workers without $346,134 in legally owed severance. Dress Master was part of the Indian company Raymond Limited, which owns three brands and operates five other subsidiaries. Reduction of workforce began two months prior when workers report that management…
Workers at H&M India Supplier Allege Widespread Sexual Abuse
Published: March 10, 2021
Union wins reinstatement of 1,257 garment workers in India
Published: February 15, 2021
Avery Dennison
Published: March 11, 2020
The WRC investigated retaliation by Avery Dennison against company employees who sought representation by the Bangalore-based Garment and Textile Workers Union (GATWU). As detailed in the report, the WRC found that Avery Dennison violated the associational rights of workers at this plant by: Improper payment by a factory human resources manager to the leader of…
Gokaldas India
Published: September 17, 2015
The WRC’s investigation found that, at the time of this tragedy, the factory was in violation of numerous state regulations regarding staff qualifications and equipment for onsite childcare and emergency medical assistance, and that, if the factory had complied with these requirements, the child’s death might well have been avoided. In light of these findings, as…
Shahi Exports Unit 12
Published: April 28, 2010
An investigation by the WRC in early 2010 determined that, with the tacit acceptance of top US and European apparel brands and retailers, Indian garment manufacturers failed to pay workers in Bangalore over US$10 million in legally mandated wages. The minimum wage was raised in March 2009, the first increase in seven years, but factory operators throughout the area simply refused to comply. For nearly a year, export apparel factories in Bangalore, which has approximately 780 factories, refused to pay the legal minimum wage to their lowest-paid workers.