garment workers
Garment Workers Owed $39.8M in Severance for Factory Closures, Report Says
The Worker Rights Consortium believes the overall sum to be much higher given the millions of garment workers…
Global Powers Must Protect Myanmar People From ‘Atrocities’
Secretary of State Antony Blinken urged businesses and governments to rethink links to the Burmese military…
Factory Disasters Are Still Happening—and This Is a Big Reason Why
Fires in India and the Philippines. A Cairo collapse killing dozens. Deadly disasters will plague the garment…
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Brandix Denies That Sri Lanka’s ‘Deteriorating’ Workers Rights Plight Is ‘Largely Ignored’
Factory owners in Sri Lanka are using the pandemic as a "pretext" to cut costs and roll back workers rights…
Boohoo Slashes 400 Suppliers–and Labor Activists Have Some Questions
The shortened list of 78 manufacturers arrives six months after an independent probe found "endemic" problems…
Half of Garment Workers in Bengaluru ‘Forced’ to Resign: Study
A study estimates that as many as 62 percent of garment workers at 25 factories in India were forced to…
Reports Allege Workers Locked Out of ‘Closed’ Thai Factory
The unannounced closure of a Thai factory that supplies Victoria's Secret left 1,388 workers without pay…
10 Cents Per T-Shirt: Cost of Lifting Garment Workers From Starvation to Survival?
Labor-rights groups say brands like Amazon, Next and Nike are making bank while their garment workers…
H&M Reiterates Supplier Commitments—But What it Isn’t Saying Speaks Volumes, Too
H&M says it will continue to maintain stable orders and fulfill agreed-upon payment terms. But it left some…
Could a ‘Fashion Czar’ or ‘Garment Trade Adjudicator’ Clean Up the Sector?
A group of MPs urged the U.K. government to name a "garment trade adjudicator" to "stamp out non-compliance"…
After Myanmar’s Bloody Weekend, Garment Sourcing Is Very Risky Business
Myanmar faced its deadliest day since the coup began as 38 people died over the weekend and Chinese-financed…
24 Injured, 20 Dead at Garment Factory Inferno in Egypt
At least 20 workers were killed and 24 injured in Egypt Thursday after a fire ravaged a four-story garment…
Profits vs. Poverty: Fashion Brands Prosper as Factory Sewers Starve
Garment workers in Bangladesh, Cambodia, Ethiopia, Myanmar and the Philippines suffer wage theft even as the…
Boohoo Urged to Tie Bonuses to Better Workers’ Rights—Not This Common Metric
British lawmakers are urging Boohoo to "put its money where its mouth is" and link generous executive bonuses…
Dozens Injured, One Dead in Bangladesh Factory Fire
At least one worker died and more than 40 were injured or sickened after a fire tore through a warehouse at a…