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Media Highlights
[Forbes] Fashion’s $16 Billion Debt To Garment Workers Should Spark Reform, Not Sympathy
Fashion’s unpaid bills have been catastrophic for garment workers. A September report co-written by the European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights, the WRC and the Solidarity Center's ILAW network showed that these debts have led to mass layoffs (at least 1...
[CNBC] Bangladesh Faces Twin Crises as Coronavirus Deals New Blow to Flood-battered Nation
“We see desperate workers willing to accept very low wages in extremely dangerous conditions, with no serious health and safety protections, let alone social distancing measures or personal protective equipment,” said Jon Hartough, Solidarity Center Bangladesh program...
[US-Asia Institute] Tim Ryan and Atley Chock: Worker Rights in Thailand (Podcast)
"The COVID crisis highlights in a much sharper way the issues that these workers have been advocating on, and struggling for, for years and years and years... [and] this is why we really need a more equitable development model than the current supply chain model,"...
[Podcast: Working Life with Jonathan Tasini] How To Steal An Election 101; Haitian Garment Workers Rise Up
"[Garment workers producing clothing for global brands in Haiti] are at risk of COVID; [they] often won't have access to health care because of the tricks that employers are playing: essentially stealing from their contributions" says Solidarity Center regional...
[Lanka Image] Workers vs. Virus
An estimated 10,000 Sri Lankan migrant workers are reported to be unemployed due to COVID-19, and many more are at an increased risk of wage theft. Solidarity Center, along with other organizations, endorses the list of 14 ways employers can protect workers from wage...
[Dinero] Rappi Gig Economy Workers Protest in Bogota for Better Conditions (Colombia, in Spanish)
Gig economy workers, considered contractors by the company Rappi, are asking for better pay and working conditions, and access to the social safety net. According to a study published last year by the Labor Observatory of the University of Rosario, the Solidarity...
[Southeast Asia Globe] Cambodia in Quarantine: Reading Between the Data
The impact of COVID-19 on Cambodia's informal workers is likely underestimated. Speaking on the construction sector, Solidarity Center's Khun Taro, Cambodian program coordinator, says 'as many as 80% of construction workers were employed informally as of 2018, placing...
[New Age: Bangladesh] Ready-Made Garment Workers Lose $501 Million in Wages in Mar-May: Report
"Clean Clothes Campaign and Worker Rights Consortium, with contributions by Solidarity Center, conducted the research on nonpayment of wages to garment workers resulting from order cancellations by apparel brands, unpaid leave and state-sanctioned wage cuts during the...
[The Guardian] Covid Outbreak Exposes Dire Conditions at Guatemala Factory Making U.S. Brands
Over 200 Guatemalan garment workers tested positive for COVID-19, supplying for Gap, Amazon and American Eagle. Solidarity Center's Central American program director, Stephen Wishart, reports that "During COVID, the brands continued to put orders into these factories...
[News 18: India] Mission Houses in Gulf Nations Should Record Indian Workers’ Wage Grievances Before Repatriation, Says Tharoor
Neha Misra, senior migration specialist for the Solidarity Center, said lack of freedom of association for migrant workers is leading to wage theft.
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