June 29, 2010
The Jabil Circuit factory in Guangzhou, China has over 6,000 workers-many of them illegal temporary workers.These workers produce for hi-tech products-all of whom are board members of the Electronic Industry Citizenship Coalition (EICC).
May 10, 2010
Factory Robs Workers’ Healthcare and Pension Payments While Undermining Government’s Social Security Institute
April 14, 2010
Nygard, Dillard's, J.C. Penney, Wal-Mart Linked to Human Trafficking and Abuse of Young Women in Jordan Sweatshop
April 13, 2010
Chinese teenagers toil excessive hours for poverty wages as they manufacture the Microsoft peripherals we use.
March 8, 2010
March 5, 2010
Fire exits chained shut as H&M sewers burned to death inside.
February 11, 2010
Workers in India, including children, will die young grinding gemstones for Valentine's Day.
February 4, 2010
Forced overtime, cheated of wages, constant harassment, trapped in abject poverty in a Salvadoran sweatshop.
November 9, 2009
Wal-Mart’s policies routinely flout the CDCs recommendations, putting both associates and shoppers at risk.
September 15, 2009
Workers Are Injured, Maimed and Killed In Bangladesh’s Shipbreaking Yards.
July 24, 2009
Workers trafficked, abused, imprisoned, and subject to forced overtime, primitive dorm conditions, and deportations in Jordan's Muse factory.
May 4, 2009
Is a bargain on a pair of jeans worth a young woman's life? President Obama thinks not.
February 13, 2009
Young Guatemalan women sewing clothing for Lane Bryant and Briggs New York suffer abusive sweatshop conditions and are cheated of their wages. CAFTA continues to fail to help these workers rise from misery. (February 2009)
February 1, 2009
Young workers producing computer keyboards living in slave-like conditions.
December 1, 2008
Workers making toys suffer in infested dorms and endure harsh working conditions.
October 20, 2008
Women making Sirius Satellite Radios are stripped of their rights, forced to work grueling hours for below-subsistence wages, and attacked and beaten when they ask for their legal rights.
September 8, 2008
Update: Workers sewing for Hanes and Wal-mart at the Mediterranean plant in Jordan are now being starved by management and are threatened with the risk of being shot. The situation is getting desperate. (9/8/08)
September 6, 2008
Workers strike due to the abusive conditions and gross violations of their fundamental rights. They sew for Wal-Mart and Hanes.
August 13, 2008
Great news! Regular workers at the Kai Da factory report significant improvements in both work hours and pay. However, there is still room for improvement as temp workers still suffer grueling hours and low wages.
July 21, 2008
Hundreds of thousands of foreign guest workers trafficked to Kuwait are systematically cheated of their wages.
July 15, 2008
Profile of a "Model Chinese Factory"
July 2, 2008
Sesame Street, K’NEX and Hasbro hide harsh factory conditions, low wages, and young workers behind clever and sweet toy advertisements.
June 1, 2008
Japanese laborers overworked to death in Toyota factories.
May 22, 2008
Young women at the Youngone factory in El Salvador face sexual harassment, abuse, and poverty wages while sewing jackets for North Face and shirts for Eddie Bauer.
April 28, 2008
A US student delegation uncovers the exploitation of workers in Nicaragua, El Salvador, and Honduras. These workers are sewing garments and shoes for export to the United States.
December 17, 2007
Workers are worked to exhaustion and paid starvation wages producing tableware for Wal-Mart at the Zhifeng factory in China.
December 11, 2007
Workers endure long hours and dangerous conditions as they make ornaments for Wal-Mart and are routinely cheated out of their wages.
December 4, 2007
Violations to the rights of the workers and abuses in the STAR Factory in Honduras that produces for Nike, NFL, and Anvil.
November 29, 2007
Worker Rights Violations and Mistreatment At the Star Factory in Honduras Producing for Nike, NFL and Anvil.
November 26, 2007
Six workers are imprisoned for trying to talk to management about their impossible production goals. Workers endure verbal and physical abuse, long overtime hours, and are illegally shortchanged on wages sewing clothing for Victoria's Secret.
November 19, 2007
Crucifixes made under horrific sweatshop conditions in China linked to Saint Patrick’s Cathedral, Trinity Church and the $4.63 billion Association for Christian Retail
November 15, 2007
Speedo Production in China Breaks Records for Worker Abuse.
November 1, 2007
Thomas & Friends Goes to China: Illegal sweatshop conditions at four factories in China producing Thomas & Friends toys.
Santa’s Helpers Suffer Constant Abuse While Making Barbie, Thomas & Friends, and Other Toys for Wal-Mart at the Xin Yi Factory in China
October 9, 2007
Workers at the Industrial Embroidery factory in Honduras's Inhdelua Free Trade Zone toil for extreme hours under constant pressure and 100-degree heat to make clothing for Nike, Old Navy/Gap, Tommy, Polo Jeans, Hanes, Osh Kosh, and others
September 30, 2007
Urgent crisis for workers striking at the Cotton Craft Factory in Jordan's Al Tajamouat Industrial City. Workers are cut off from electricity and water.
September 1, 2007
Alcoa's high-tech auto parts sweatshops In Honduras rocked by corruption and human rights scandal
February 1, 2007
January 23, 2007
Anti-sweatshop legislation has been introduced in the U.S. Congress which will prohibit the import, export or sale of sweatshop goods in the U.S.
October 7, 2006
NLC report on child labor at the Harvest Rich factory in Bangladesh. Children are sewing for Hanes, Wal-Mart, Puma and others. 2006
October 5, 2006
Human trafficking of foreign guest workers continues at the Golden Finger factory in Jordan.
September 28, 2006
National Labor Committee report on the Atateks factory in Jordan, using trafficked workers from Bangladesh
September 27, 2006
One Worker is Fired and Deported, Another Imprisoned For Speaking Truthfully to U.S. Corporate Auditors
Eight workers fired, imprisoned, beaten, and forcibly deported for asking for their most basic legal rights.
September 26, 2006
Three workers fired, imprisoned, beaten and forcibly deported from asking for their most basic legal rights.
July 7, 2006
There continue to be concrete and widespread cases of factory improvements on the ground in Jordan, but there have also been setbacks and many factories continue to violate both Jordanian law and core internationally recognized worker rights standards.
June 13, 2006
Spotlight on the 2006 Trafficking in Persons Report, Forced Labor and Sex Trafficking at the World Cup House Committee on International Relations
Human Trafficking, Involuntary Servitude and Worker Rights Conditions Under the U.S.-Jordan Free Trade Agreement
June 12, 2006
Further trafficking and human rights abuses in the Saidan factory in Jordan.
May 1, 2006
Tens of thousands of foreign guest workers stripped of their passports, trapped in involuntary servitude, sewing clothing for Wal-Mart, Gloria Vanderbilt, Target, Kohl's, Thalia Sodi for Kmart, Victoria's Secret, L.L.Bean and others.
December 20, 2005
Holiday cards sold at Wal-Mart are being produced in Guangzhou, China by workers who labor in terrible conditions and are often denied holidays while working up to 94 1/2 hours a week at just 34 cents an hour.
December 1, 2005
Toy trucks made for such U.S. companies as Wal-Mart, Mattel, and MGA are being produced in sweatshops in China where laborers work excessively long hours and are paid only 33 cents an hour among many other abuses.
November 16, 2005
Furniture being sold in such U.S. stores as Levitz and Jennifer Convertibles is being produced by workers in Shenzhen, China who were beaten by Italian supervisors after pay disputes.
August 18, 2005
In China, young women and men are forced to work 10 to 13 hours a day producing children's books for Disney six and seven days a week, working a grueling 60 to 90 hours a week. The workers are paid just 33 to 41 cents an hour, trapping them in poverty.
June 20, 2005
Exploiting labor in China and Bangladesh allows Walmart to make huge profits while keeping factory workers trapped in poverty.
June 1, 2005
Wal-Mart would rather allow young women workers to remain mired in lives of destitution than pay 7 more cents per shirt. The extra 7 cents would make a dramatic difference in these women's lives.
December 1, 2004
NLC report on workers' rights violations in a Chinese factory that produces Timberland products, such as illegally low wages, excessive overtime, child labor, and beatings.
November 4, 2004
A Report on workers in China producing shoes for Puma; August 2004.
November 1, 2004
MAERSK SEALAND, the largest shipping company in Central America, controls approximately 80 percent of the container shipping market in El Salvador
December 17, 2003
Abuse of workers, union busting, violation of Salvadoran labor laws, and tax fraud documented in Hanchang Textiles, a factory producing for Osh Kosh B'Gosh and Wal-Mart.
November 1, 2003
Workers at the AAA Factory in Honduras are paid starvation wages and given dirty water to drink while sweing clothing for Hanes, Fruit of the Loom, Nike and Gildan.
October 2, 2003
NLC Report on the Southeast Textiles, S.A. (SETISA) factory in Choloma, Cortes, Honduras, sewing Sean John clothing. October 2003.
October 1, 2003
Workers sewing clothes for Sears and J.C. Penney in Nicaragua are forced to work long hours in stifling heat and in air filled with lint. Workers are cheated of their wages, pregnant women are harrassed, and management busts the workers' union.
October 15, 2002
Bangladeshi workers from the Shah Makdum and MNC garment factories tour America with NLC Director Charles Kernaghan and NLC Senior Associate Barbara Briggs to raise awareness of their campaign against Disney sweatshops.
February 1, 2002
Bangladeshi women producing clothes for Disney, Wal-Mart and Jerry Leigh toil 15 hours a day, 7 days a week under horrifying conditions of abuse.
November 1, 2001
Female workers at the Shah Makhdum Garments Factory in Bangladesh are suffer physical and verbal abuse and are routinely cheated of their wages as they sew garments for Disney.
May 18, 2000
The classic 2000 NLC report documenting abuses at sweatshop factories in China producing for U.S. companies including Huffy, New Balance and Nike.
July 1, 1999
This article outlines the discrepancies between what Wal-Mart professes as its Code of Conduct to monitor the proper production of its products and its practices in the Commonwealth of Saipan.
January 1, 1999
This article contains text from a California lawsuit against such U.S. corporations as the Gap, Nordstrom, J.C. Penney, and Wal-Mart for unlawful business acts and practices in their sweatshops on the Island of Saipan.
April 1, 1996
April 1, 1993
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Guatemalan factory, Alianza Fashion, robs workers' health care and pension payments while undermining government's social security institute.
The Race to the Bottom in the Auto Industry
