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Yakjin Garment

Country: Cambodia
Issues: Abuse and Harassment, Freedom of Association Violations

The WRC report “Crackdown in Cambodia,” dated March 24, 2014, detailed deadly attacks by Cambodian security forces on protesting Cambodian garment workers.

Genesis, S.A.

Country: Haiti
Issues: Abuse and Harassment, Freedom of Association Violations, Overtime Violations, Wage Theft, Wrongful Termination

In December 2011 and January 2012, four union leaders who had been illegally fired by t-shirt factory Genesis, S.A. were reinstated at the urging of the factory’s main customer, Gildan.

Industrias Sinteticas (INSINCA)

Country: El Salvador
Issues: Abuse and Harassment, Freedom of Association Violations, Health & Safety Violations, Overtime Violations, Statutory Benefit Violations, Wage Theft

The WRC’s assessment at INSINCA found violations in the areas of wages and hours, statutory paid leave, freedom of association and occupational health and safety.

Arneses y Accesorios de Mexico (PKC Group)

Country: Mexico
Issues: Abuse and Harassment, Freedom of Association Violations, Wrongful Termination

The WRC’s inquiry found, on the basis of overwhelming evidence, that, since August 2011, PKC management at Arneses y Accesorios has carried out a series of actions that have violated international labor standards by denying workers the opportunity to exercise their right to freely join a union in order to bargain collectively with their employer.

Alamode, S.A.

Country: Honduras
Issues: Abuse and Harassment, Freedom of Association Violations, Health & Safety Violations, Overtime Violations, Statutory Benefit Violations, Wage Theft

The WRC found continued non-compliance with the City of San Francisco’s Ordinance in the areas of payment of legally-mandated health care benefits, payment of wages, hours of work, legally-mandated terminal benefits, gender discrimination, harassment and abuse, occupational health and safety and freedom of association.

E Garment

Country: Cambodia
Issues: Abuse and Harassment, Freedom of Association Violations, Wrongful Termination

The WRC found serious and ongoing violations by E Garment’s management of its workers’ associational rights, that the factory, VF and E Garment’s other buyers — despite extensive attempts at engagement by the WRC — have repeatedly failed to remedy.

EINS

Country: Nicaragua
Issues: Abuse and Harassment, Freedom of Association Violations, Wrongful Termination

On February 21, 2013, workers wrote to SAE-A, buyers and the WRC alleging a series of violations, including the termination of 16 workers (nine at EINS and seven at Tecnotex) in retaliation for workers’ lawful exercise of their associational rights.

Tecnotex

Country: Nicaragua
Issues: Abuse and Harassment, Freedom of Association Violations, Wrongful Termination

On February 21, 2013, workers wrote to SAE-A, buyers and the WRC alleging a series of violations, including the termination of 16 workers (nine at EINS and seven at Tecnotex) in retaliation for workers’ lawful exercise of their associational rights.

Palermo Villa, Inc.

Country: United States
Issues: Abuse and Harassment, Freedom of Association Violations, Wrongful Termination

The WRC launched this inquiry in response to a complaint by a group of Palermo workers alleging that, in early June 2012, the company carried out a mass dismissal of employees, as well as other labor rights violations, in retaliation for the workers’ effort to organize a union at the company’s primary manufacturing facility in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Flying Needle

Country: Nicaragua
Issues: Abuse and Harassment, Freedom of Association Violations, Wrongful Termination

Shortly after workers of the Flying Needle factory formed a union in May 2012, all twelve union leaders were illegally fired.