Sweatshop Initiative

Next month college campuses across the country will give students the chance to buy “sweatfree” collegiate apparel thanks to a breakthrough initiative in the Dominican Republic.   A unionized factory paying a living wage where workers face none of the abusive conditions typical in sweatshops across the globe is now producing apparel for the college market.  

Several leading U.S. universities have ended their licensing arrangement with a major U.S.

The last unionized maquiladora in Guatemala has closed but a handful of union activists are demanding justice, including full back pay and severance, relocation to other jobs, and an end to blacklisti

In a significant victory for maquila workers, workers won a collective bargaining agreement on August 12 at a large textile manufacturing facility in the Dominican Republic owned by Hanesbrands, Inc.

The Worker Rights Consortium released a new report in early July, showing that a PRI-affiliated organization, Anotorcha Campesina, carried out violence against the local union at the Mexmode factory i