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Why Nisolo Spent $500,000 Building ‘Sustainability Facts Label’
CEO Patrick Woodyward explains why the Nashville footwear and fashion brand "open sourced all the…
Can a ‘Factory Social Score’ Improve Garment Factory Conditions?
Four garment factories in Bangladesh are piloting a new system that tracks changes in the ESG performance of…
Wage Theft in US Garment Industry is Worse Than We Thought
The U.S. cut-and-sew sector, in fact, is responsible for the second-highest rate of federal wage-violation…
50,000 Bangladesh Garment Workers Getting Faster Access to Wages
A new financial wellness platform wants to help Bangladesh's garment workers unlock earned but unpaid wages…
Will SB 62 Help or Hinder a Revival of LA’s Denim Industry?
In the heart of Los Angeles, a pitched battle over the soul of California's garment industry has drawn to a…
Why Amazon’s Holiday Hiring Frenzy Could Squeeze Retail Margins
Morgan Stanley cut its price target for Amazon from $4,300 to $4,100 per share as mass hirings and wage bumps…
Nike, Primark Address Factory Worker Wage Theft Reports
A survey of 2,100 workers across 190 factories in six Asian garment-producing countries documented $157…
Here’s How Local Gov Can Revive Retail Real Estate and Reimagine Jobs
The National League of Cities cited eight key recommendations for city leaders to facilitate an inclusive…
Workers at Closed Thai Lingerie Factory Still Waiting on Wages
Workers rejected an offer from Brilliant, which had produced for Victoria's Secret, to pay $7.4 million over…
Anticipated April Hiring Boom Ends Up a Bust: Week Ahead
It wasn't clear if April jobs data meant the lackluster hiring report was due to a shortage of workers or a…
California Garment Worker Bill Clears Key Hurdle
SB 62 is meant to close loopholes that allow wage theft to flourish in California's garment industry by…
Here’s When Unemployment Could Reach ‘New Low’
A new IHS Markit report sees inflation ahead amid economic recoveries worldwide.
Half a Billion in Severance: Laid-Off Garment Workers Still Waiting on Wages
Factories supplying to the world's biggest brands are withholding an estimated $500 billion in severance from…
Garment Workers Win Back Wages in Laos and Thailand
Garment workers in some of the world's most underserved locales are finally seeing some movement on wages…
Shuttered Myanmar Garment Factory Forced to Pay Lost Wages
An apparel factory in Myanmar's Yangon region that shut down in late December has been forced to pay up…