Media Highlights

David Welsh, Solidarity Center’s Thailand country director, said: “Most people don’t know about Mae Sot. The same trends found in other supplying markets are there, however; namely a jurisdiction where the rule of law is weak, where wages and labor conditions are...

Twenty-three of the interviews were with local union leaders and rank-and-file members. Representatives of the Center for Alliance of Labor and Human Rights (CENTRAL), the Workers’ Rights Consortium, Solidarity Center and the Clean Clothes Campaign were also...

If severance cases continue to be treated individually and the garment industry and governments do not implement measures to prevent wage theft, no brand will make serious efforts to reform supply chains, said David Welsh, Solidarity Center country program director...

David Welsh, country director for Thailand and Burma at the Solidarity Center, explains that “workers who have been messed [with] again and again are confusing their belief that democracy doesn’t work with the fact that capitalism doesn’t work.”

"The serious, systematic and pervasive ways that migrants have been excluded, exploited and marginalized have been well-documented for decades. But the Global Compact on Migration, which UN member states signed into effect four years ago, has the potential to help...

"Dave Welsh of labor rights group Solidarity Center says, 'If [brands] need the public relations benefit of claiming to hire a third-party monitor, waiting for their evaluation, that strikes me as being primarily for public relations purposes, not to actually making a...