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Bangladesh’s Wage Protests, Explained
Country: Bangladesh
Issues: Living Wage, Minimum Wage
Broken threads: 5 things to know about troubled college clothing industry
Country: Global
Issues: Abuse and Harassment, Covid-19, Forced Labor, Freedom of Association Violations, Gender-based Violence and Discrimination, Living Wage, Wage Theft
UW-Madison relies on labor rights orgs, questionnaires to weed out bad licensees
Country: United States
Issues: Living Wage
Broken threads: College clothing made in factories rife with labor violations, poverty wages
Country: Global
Issues: Abuse and Harassment, Covid-19, Freedom of Association Violations, Gender-based Violence and Discrimination, LGBTQ, Living Wage, Safety Accords, Wage and hour violations, Wage Theft, Workplace Health and Safety
Can Man Garment
Country: Vietnam
Issues: Child Labor, Freedom of Association Violations, Health & Safety Violations, Living Wage, Overtime Violations, Statutory Benefit Violations, Wage and hour violations, Wage Theft
In November 2020 through January 2021 the WRC was retained by Covered California to assess compliance with sweat-free procurement standards at Can Man Garment, a factory in Vietnam, and monitor distribution of a “living wage supplement” to employees sewing protective face masks for Covered California’s 1.5 million subscribers. Covered California contracted with Aiden Health to…
State of California Asked WRC to Deliver Living Wages to Workers Making Masks
Country: Vietnam
Issues: Covid-19, Freedom of Association Violations, Health & Safety Violations, Living Wage, Overtime Violations, Statutory Benefit Violations
To: WRC Affiliate Universities and Colleges From: Ben Hensler, Bent Gehrt, and Scott Nova Date: January 24, 2022 Re: State of California Asked WRC to Deliver Living Wages to Workers Making Masks Last year, the State of California’s Health Benefit Exchange, known as Covered California, asked the WRC to assist this public agency by monitoring…
The quest to find a sustainable prayer rug
Country: China, Global
Issues: Forced Labor, Health & Safety Violations, Living Wage, Wage and hour violations
Sweatshops Won’t Help the World’s Poor, but Unions Could
Country:
Issues: Living Wage, Safety Accords, Workplace Health and Safety
Weakening Legal Protections for Garment Workers in Asia
Country: Cambodia, India, Indonesia
Issues: Covid-19, Freedom of Association Violations, Living Wage, Wage and hour violations, Workplace Health and Safety
May 27, 2021 Dear colleagues, Over the past year, the WRC has tracked a disturbing trend: as their populations faced the ravages of Covid, the governments of several garment-producing countries in Asia acted to strip away and undermine worker protections, a move often framed as a way to attract new investment. In Indonesia and India,…
When Lean-In Feminism Reaches the Factory Floor
Country: India
Issues: Living Wage