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…

Victoria’s Secret Intervenes in Thai Workers’ 13-Month Wage Struggle

Published: May 25, 2022

Thai Workers Win Historic $8.3 Million in Back Pay, Financed by Victoria’s Secret

Published: May 25, 2022

More than 1,250 Thai workers who sewed bras for Victoria’s Secret, Lane Bryant, and Torrid—and who were fired in 2021 without their legally mandated severance—have received $8.3 million in compensation.

Update on Hong Seng Knitting (Thailand)

Published: April 19, 2022

To: WRC Affiliate Universities and Colleges From: Scott Nova Date: April 19, 2022 Re: Update on Hong Seng Knitting (Thailand) A number of affiliate universities have contacted the WRC in the last few weeks seeking updated information concerning unpaid wages at Hong Seng Knitting, a Thai supplier of university logo apparel to Nike. In light…

Heartless at Heart and Mind: Cheated of severance, Thai workers who sewed kids’ clothes for El Corte Inglés struggle to feed and house their own children

Published: December 17, 2021

Denial of legally due severance inflicts many hardships on garment workers. Due to chronically low wages across major apparel brands’ supply chains, weak social safety nets in the countries where they choose to produce clothes, and poor enforcement of local labor laws, most garment workers entered the Covid-19 pandemic with no margin of economic security….

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