The Worker Rights Consortium is an independent labor rights monitoring organization, conducting investigations of working conditions in factories around the globe. Our purpose is to combat sweatshops and protect the rights of workers who make apparel and other products sold in the United States.

• WRC Issues Report on Sustained Labor Rights Violations at Gildan
  The WRC has issued an interim report on violations of workers' freedom of association by Gildan in the Dominican Republic.
• WRC Issues Verification Report on Alta Gracia Factory
  The WRC has issued a comprehensive report on labor rights compliance at the factory making Alta Gracia Apparel.
• Dozens Killed in Fire at Bangladesh Apparel Factory
  The building safety crisis in the Bangladesh garment industry continues, as yet another fire consumes the lives of workers who made apparel for major U.S. clothing brands. See Washington Post story. See statement from WRC and other labor rights organizations.
• Exposure of Wage Violations Leads to Back Pay for 110,000 Workers in India
  The WRC has confirmed that garment factories in Bangalore have paid more than $6 million in back wages and are now paying at least the legal minimum.
• Georgetown Publishes Study of Alta Gracia Apparel
  Professor John Kline documents transformative impact of living wage for workers and their families.
• Breakthrough in Nike Severance Case
  Nike agrees to pay $1.5 million to workers at two contract factories in Honduras. See New York Times article.
• New York Times on Alta Gracia Apparel
  Story on the opening of living wage/unionized apparel factory in the Domican Republic.

• Minimum Wage Violations and Corrective Action (India)
  The WRC and local worker representatives have pressed Wal-Mart, Gap, H&M, Cutter and Buck and other major brands and retailers to correct massive violations of the minimum wage law by their suppliers in Bangalore.
• Implementation of Nike Agreement
  The WRC is monitoring implementation of a ground-breaking agreement that workers in Honduras have won with Nike.
• Alta Gracia: Living Wage, Union-Made Apparel in the Dominican Republic
  The WRC is conducting monitoring and verification at a model factory that represents a huge advance in wages and conditions for apparel workers.
• Implementation of Historic Russell Accord
  The WRC is monitoring implementation of a ground-breaking labor rights agreement.
• LTU Apparel (Thailand)
  WRC has worked with employees and management to restore freedom of association and improve factory conditions.
• Designated Suppliers Program
  A strategy to address the root causes of sweatshop conditions
• View reports of all WRC factory investigations