Worker Rights Consortium is an independent labor rights monitor that conducts factory investigations and helps workers around the world protect their rights.
Washington, DC
Joined June 2014
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The Worker Rights Consortium is marking 25 years of advancing real accountability in global apparel supply chains. What started with student activism has grown into a global-scale corporate accountability mechanism—urgent now more than ever.
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Will you support workers this #GivingTuesday?
Daily, workers in global supply chains face abusive working conditions. Our individual donors share our vision of a world where workers organize without fear. Thank you for any gift you can make today.
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“You can’t have environmental sustainability while abusing workers’ rights,” Thulsi Narayanasamy, our Director of International Advocacy, said.
“The causes of both are inextricably linked—and the solutions must be, too.”
Read more from Vogue Business: bit.ly/47bUTFJ
We joined @cleanclothes, Katalyst Initiative, & Solidarity Center at #ClimateWeekNY for “Too Hot To Fashion”, a panel on what a #JustTransition means for garment workers.
Fair purchasing & living wages are key to tackling fashion’s climate impact.
#LaborRights
In Bangkok at #UNRBHR2025? Please join our civil society only session tomorrow:
Turning Law into Justice: Leveraging Due Diligence for Worker Remedy
📅16 September 2025 | 10:30-12:00 ICT
📍UN Conference Centre | Conference Room 1
Registration (optional): workersrights.org/2025-unite…
WRC to brands:
✔ Pay in full for all goods you’ve ordered
✔ Don’t slash prices on new orders
✔ Protect workers if you relocate
📢 We lay out what’s at stake:
🔗 bit.ly/4kTYqwA
#Tariffs #GarmentWorkers #LaborRights
New tariffs increase costs.
But brands must not shift those costs onto workers earning $1/hr.
Brands can afford to pay. Workers cannot.
🔗 bit.ly/4kTYqwA
#LaborRights #GarmentWorkers #TariffImpact
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New webinar: Unraveled Commitments: The Global Impact of Fruit of the Loom’s Unionized Factory Shutdowns
Register now to join our members @4WorkerRights, the Honduran union CGT, @Partner4Dignity & others in conversation June 11.
dignityandrights.org/2025/05…
ALT Graphic says "Unraveled Commitments: The Global Impact of Fruit of the Loom’s Unionized Factory Shutdowns" below is the Partners for Dignity & Rights logo. The link it biy.ly/UnraveledCommitments. On the right is a photo of a group of Honduran trade unionists holding up signs protesting Fruit of the Loom in front of the Jerzees Nuevo Dia factory, which had represented their "new day" in human rights commitments before the chose to close it down.
At #CSW69, WRC spotlighted the Central Java Gender Justice Agreement—a worker-led program to end gender-based violence.
✅ Protects 6,250+ women workers
✅ Enforces #ILOC190 standards
With @GLJ_ILRF & @AsiaFloorWage.
Read more: bit.ly/4j6Vko6
#GenderJustice #CSW2025
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⚖️Key points on labor rights and the fight against gender-based violence and harassment at work highlighted by @aancheita during the panel on #GenderBasedViolence in the workplace and the use of Convention 190 at the Side meeting of the Beijing+30 Forum on #LaborRights⬇️
#NGOCSW69
@SolidarityCntr
Worker Rights Consortium retweeted
On March 18, the C190 Arc Task Force, convened & coordinated by @GLJ, hosted a #NGOCSW69 event with @asia_floorwage @bcws1 @farfeminists @IDWFED @NLCHeadquarters @SolidarityCntr @uniglobalunion @ituc @udw_union @4WorkerRights
Read more: laborrights.org/releases/c19…
WRC at #OECD 2025 🌍
Three WRC experts joined three @OECD side session panels on #duediligence, #forcedlabor & #bindingagreements—emphasizing worker-driven solutions.
📖 Read our latest commentary: 🔗 bit.ly/4j6Vko6
#OECDForum #LaborRights
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Scott Nova is Executive Director of the Workers Rights Consortium @4WorkerRights, which combats labor rights abuses and advances the rights of workers in global supply chains. At our summit, he'll be speaking about the state of garment workers' rights: bit.ly/4g0yNr8
Worker Rights Consortium retweeted
More Info on #NGOCSW69 event hosted by the C190 Arc Task Force, convened & coordinated by
@GLJ @asia_floorwage @bcws1 @farfeminists @IDWFED @NLCHeadquarters @SolidarityCntr @uniglobalunion @ituc @udw_union @4WorkerRights
Register: ngocsw69forum.events.whova.c… #CSW69 #Beijing30 #C190
Join us @ this important parallel event: @ilo Convention 190 & Beijing+30: Bridging Gender & Labor
🏙️NYC 📆 March 18
The session will explore how #labor & #genderjustice intersect to push for stronger protections under #ILOC190. #GenderAndLabor
Register below ⬇️
Breakthrough for #genderjustice:
“The Central Java Gender Justice Agreement will make Ontide in Central Java one of the safest places for women workers anywhere in the global apparel industry.” #LaborRights
@asia_floorwage @global_labor
🔗tinyurl.com/3s3jhuwu
After years of gender-based violence and harassment, #womenworkers in #Indonesia have won a historic agreement protecting 6,250 garment workers producing for @Fanatics. #GenderJustice #LaborRights
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Join us at #CSW69 for Women Workers Stand Up to Workplace Violence & Harassment – a discussion on the Central Java Gender Justice Agreement. 🗓️March 17 | 2:30 PM📍NYC
Register to attend: tinyurl.com/5d55npe3 #GenderJustice #GBVH #WorkerRights