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The WRC is a leading labor rights organization with over two decades of experience exposing and remedying workplace violations in global supply chains. Our model unites investigation, accountability, and advocacy. www.workersrights.org

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Worker Rights Consortium @4workerrights.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Over many years, the Gaha Green factory in Indonesia, a Columbia Sportswear supplier, denied workers of wages and benefits they legally earned. It is Columbia Sportswear’s responsibility to get Gaha Green to pay the workers. Our investigative report: www.workersrights.org/app/uploads/...
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Worker Rights Consortium @4workerrights.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Increasingly, brands and industry associations will proclaim commitments to protecting workers from the worst effects of climate change. Absent binding obligations on brands, however, garment workers will continue to be forced to work long hours for low wages under extreme heat. #ClimateWeekNYC
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Worker Rights Consortium @4workerrights.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Year after year, dozens of Cambodian garment workers continue to die from the horrendous absence of safety during their commutes. Responsible brands would not allow these workers who make their clothes to risk injury and death every day, just to get to work. www.workersrights.org/commentary/g...
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Garment Workers Risk Their Lives Daily in Cambodia - Worker Rights Consortium
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Worker Rights Consortium @4workerrights.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
The WRC recognizes the positive efforts and meaningful commitments of both Fanatics Apparel, as a university licensee, and Hoosier, as a longtime manufacturer of collegiate goods, to restore compliance with university codes of conduct and remedy the factory’s dismissal of 367 workers in August 2025.
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WRC Secures Reinstatement and Back Pay for Workers at Nike / Fanatics Collegiate Supplier in Guatemala - Worker Rights Consortium
Remedies Restore Compliance with University Standards
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Worker Rights Consortium @4workerrights.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Join us at @afwa.bsky.social & @globallaborjustice.bsky.social's #OECD side session on an enforceable worker-led model to address #GBVH: Reweaving Supply Chain Governance: Lessons from the Central Java Agreement for Gender Justice 📅 Feb 13 ⏰ 12:15 – 1:30PM CET www.oecd-events.org/e/garment/se...
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Worker Rights Consortium @4workerrights.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Join our virtual side-session at the #OECD Forum on Due Diligence in the Garment & Footwear Sector. When Workers Are Silenced for Exercising Their Rights: Countering Criminalisation and Advancing Corporate Responsibility for Remedy 📅 Mon, Feb 9 ⏰ 3–4:30PM CET www.workersrights.org/2026-oecd-fo...
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Worker Rights Consortium @4workerrights.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
The Worker Rights Consortium is marking 25 years of advancing real accountability in global apparel supply chains. What started with student activism has grown into a global-scale corporate accountability mechanism—urgent now more than ever. Read more: bit.ly/48GyEso #WorkerRights
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Twenty-Five Years of the WRC: Redefining What’s Possible  - Worker Rights Consortium
This year marked a key moment of reflection for the Worker Rights Consortium, as we commemorated our 25th anniversary.
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Worker Rights Consortium @4workerrights.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
The Worker Rights Consortium is marking 25 years of advancing real accountability in global apparel supply chains. What started with student activism has grown into a global-scale corporate accountability mechanism—urgent now more than ever. Read more: bit.ly/48GyEso #LaborRights
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Twenty-Five Years of the WRC: Redefining What’s Possible  - Worker Rights Consortium
This year marked a key moment of reflection for the Worker Rights Consortium, as we commemorated our 25th anniversary.
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Worker Rights Consortium @4workerrights.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Will you support workers this #GivingTuesday? Daily, workers in global supply chains face abusive working conditions. Our individual donors share our vision of a world where workers earn a living wage and organize without fear. Thank you for any gift you can make today. www.workersrights.org/donate/
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SAGE Fund @sagefundrights.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Congratulations to SAGE grantees @4workerrights.bsky.social, CATU, and Chea Chan on this victory for labor rights in Cambodia! Better-late-than-never remedy from the brands, but it came at a high personal cost for Chan. www.workersrights.org/commentary/l...
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Landmark Redress for Falsely Imprisoned Worker Leader Won with Breakthrough Union Recognition for 20,000 Workers - Worker Rights Consortium
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Worker Rights Consortium @4workerrights.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
“You can’t have environmental sustainability while abusing workers’ rights,” Thulsi Narayanasamy, our Director of International Advocacy, said. “The causes of both are inextricably linked—and the solutions must be, too.” Read more from Vogue Business: bit.ly/47bUTFJ
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What you missed at New York Climate Week
President Trump’s anti-ESG backlash sparked fears of a muted and despondent New York Climate Week. The reality was anything but.
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Worker Rights Consortium @4workerrights.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
We joined @cleanclothes.bsky.social, Katalyst Initiative & @solidaritycenter.bsky.social at #ClimateWeekNY for “Too Hot To Fashion”, a panel on what a #JustTransition means for garment workers. Fair purchasing & living wages are key to tackling fashion’s climate impact. #LaborRights
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Worker Rights Consortium @4workerrights.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
We are pleased to report that Lucky Brand has made a humanitarian contribution of $500,000 to assist garment workers at the Industrial Hana factory in Guatemala, which was, prior to its closure, a subcontractor for one of Lucky Brand’s direct apparel suppliers. www.workersrights.org/commentary/l...
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Lucky Brand Joins AEO and Puma to Help Workers Owed $1.5 Million by Guatemalan Subcontractor - Worker Rights Consortium
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Worker Rights Consortium @4workerrights.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
In Bangkok at #UNRBHR2025? Please join our civil society only session tomorrow: Turning Law into Justice: Leveraging Due Diligence for Worker Remedy 📅16 September 2025 | 10:30 - 12:00 ICT 📍UN Conference Centre | Conference Room 1 Registration (optional): www.workersrights.org/2025-united-...
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SAGE Fund @sagefundrights.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Great piece by @fordfoundation.org on SAGE grantee @4workerrights.bsky.social about its strategy of securing binding agreements with garment brands to improve labor rights at the factories that supply their clothes! www.fordfoundation.org/news-and-sto...
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The Worker Rights Consortium: Fighting for Garment Workers Worldwide - Ford Foundation
The Worker Rights Consortium protects garment workers rights by using university licensing agreements to hold global brands accountable
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Worker Rights Consortium @4workerrights.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
WRC to brands: ✔ Pay in full for all goods you’ve ordered ✔ Don’t slash prices on new orders ✔ Protect workers if you relocate 📢 We lay out what’s at stake: 🔗 bit.ly/4kTYqwA #Tariffs #GarmentWorkers #LaborRights
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Bangladesh Minimum Wage Negotiations Put Brands’ Living Wage “Commitments” to the Test - Worker Rights Consortium
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Worker Rights Consortium @4workerrights.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
New tariffs increase costs. But brands must not shift those costs onto workers earning $1/hr. Brands can afford to pay. Workers cannot. 🔗 bit.ly/4kTYqwA #LaborRights #GarmentWorkers #TariffImpact
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Bangladesh Minimum Wage Negotiations Put Brands’ Living Wage “Commitments” to the Test - Worker Rights Consortium
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Worker Rights Consortium @4workerrights.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
At #CSW69, WRC spotlighted the Central Java Gender Justice Agreement—a worker-led program to end gender-based violence. ✅ Protects 6,250+ women workers ✅ Enforces #ILOC190 standards @globallaborjustice.bsky.social Read more: bit.ly/4j6Vko6 #GenderJustice #CSW2025
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WRC Advances Workers’ Rights on Global Stages: OECD Forum on Due Diligence in the Garment and Footwear Sector and United Nations Commission on the Status of Women 2025 Highlights - Worker Rights Conso...
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Worker Rights Consortium @4workerrights.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
WRC at #OECD 2025 🌍 Three WRC experts joined three @oecd-ocde.bsky.social side session panels on #duediligence, #forcedlabor & #bindingagreements - emphasizing worker-driven solutions. 📖 Read our latest commentary: 🔗 bit.ly/4j6Vko6 #OECDForum #LaborRights
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WRC Advances Workers’ Rights on Global Stages: OECD Forum on Due Diligence in the Garment and Footwear Sector and United Nations Commission on the Status of Women 2025 Highlights - Worker Rights Conso...
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Worker Rights Consortium @4workerrights.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Join us @ this important parallel event: ILO Convention 190 & Beijing+30: Bridging Gender & Labor 🏙️ NYC 📆 March 18 The session will explore how #labor & #genderjustice intersect to push for stronger protections under #ILOC190. #GenderAndLabor Register below ⬇️
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Worker Rights Consortium @4workerrights.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Breakthrough for #genderjustice: “The Central Java Gender Justice Agreement will make Ontide in Central Java one of the safest places for women workers anywhere in the global apparel industry.” #LaborRights 🔗 tinyurl.com/3s3jhuwu
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Worker Rights Consortium @4workerrights.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
After years of gender-based violence and harassment, #womenworkers in #Indonesia have won a historic agreement protecting 6,250 garment workers producing for Fanatics. #GenderJustice #LaborRights tinyurl.com/39y35prx
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Jasmin Malik Chua @jasminchua.com · 12/03/2025
The Central Java Agreement for Gender Justice, a first in Southeast Asia, will create safer, union-overseen conditions for women garment workers who suffered abuse at two factories.
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EXCLUSIVE: Fanatics, Nike Back Binding Agreement to Fight Workplace Sexual Violence in Indonesia
The Central Java Agreement for Gender Justice, a first in Southeast Asia, will create safer, union-overseen conditions for women garment workers who suffered abuse at two factories.
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Worker Rights Consortium @4workerrights.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Join us at #CSW69 for Women Workers Stand Up to Workplace Violence & Harassment – a discussion on the Central Java Gender Justice Agreement. 🗓️March 17 | 2:30 PM📍NYC Register to attend: tinyurl.com/5d55npe3 #GenderJustice #GBVH #WorkerRights
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NGO CSW69/Beijing+30 Forum Registration hosted by Whova
2025-03-09, New York, NY
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Worker Rights Consortium @4workerrights.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Women workers in #Indonesia, with support from WRC, Asia Floor Wage Alliance & @globallaborjustice.bsky.social, have signed the new Central Java Agreement for Gender Justice. A model for ending #GBVH in supply chains—through binding, enforceable agreements. #GBVH #LaborRights tinyurl.com/39y35prx
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From Fear to Power: How Indonesian Women Workers Won Binding Commitments for Change - Worker Rights Consortium
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