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[ACTIVE] Labor rights violations are found at Jet Fair Industrial, Hasbro's supplier factory producing Transformers figures.
[ACTIVE] The NCAA, NFL and Wal-Mart are implicated in a sweatshop scandal, producing their licensed goods at an illegal sweatshop in El Salvador, where women are just paid pennies per garment and stripped of their rights.
[ACTIVE] Young women workers raped, tortured and beaten at the Classic Factory in Jordan, where they sew clothing for Wal-Mart, Hanes, Target, Macy's, Kohl's, Lands' End and others.
[ACTIVE] Workers are again trapped and burned to death behind locked exit gates. One hundred years ago, the outrage over the Triangle fire led to the rallying cry, "Who will protect the working girl?" Where is that cry today?
[ACTIVE September 2009--present] Shipbreaking (taking apart huge decommissioned ships) is one of the most dangerous jobs in the world; and yet, for tens of thousands of workers in Bangladesh, it is a job that pays a wage too small to live of off, and with almost no safety precautions to battle the inherent risks of the job.
[ARCHIVED April 2011] Workers manufacturing the popular GM Cruze and Aveo vehicles are paid just 47 to 92 cents an hour. Many of them suffer from permanent spinal cord injuries. This is not the General Motors we know in the United States.
[ARCHIVED March 2011] At Yuwei Plastics and Hardware, an auto parts factory in Dongguan China, a young man was just 21 when three fingers and several knuckles were torn off his left hand while he was operating a stamping machine making parts for export to Ford.
[ARCHIVED January-June 2011] Women at Ocean Sky factory in El Salvador are paid 8 cents for each $25 NFL T-shirt they sew.
[ACTIVE] Guest workers in Jordan imprisoned for speaking up in regards of gross worker rights violations
[ARCHIVED May-September 2010] In Guatemala, workers at the Alianza Fashion factory which produces primarily women woven pants of Briggs New York, Sag Harbor, Fashion Bug, J.M. Collection and Alfani have been robbed of Social Security health care and pension.
[ACTIVE March 2010--present] Within the past few months, the Bangladeshi garment workers have become involved in a struggle to earn better working conditions and a minimum wage that does not leave them destitute. The National Labor Committee's Bangladeshi Garment Worker campaign spotlights these struggles, and the things we can do to help the workers.
[ACTIVE February 2010--present] More than 2,000 men, women and children in India have died miserable deaths due to silicosis, while polishing gemstones for export to the U.S. and Europe.
[ARCHIVED June-July 2010] China's factory model over the last 20 years-of grueling hours, seven-day workweeks, below-subsistence wages, prison-like discipline, primitive living conditions and zero rights-may be cracking; the All China Federation of Trade Unions is now openly being discussed as a shill for the government.
[ARCHIVED May-August 2009] Is a bargain on a pair of jeans worth a young woman's life? Metro Group, the world’s third largest retailer, is linked to horrific sweatshop conditions in Bangladesh.
[ARCHIVED 2006-2009] As things stand now in the global economy, the corporate trademark is protected, but not the rights of the worker.
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[ARCHIVED May 2006—Present]
Please demand NFL, NCAA and Wal-Mart to assure compliance with worker rights laws and guarantee workers’ right to organize.
Please tell Hanes, Target, Macy's and other companies to end sexual abuse of young women in their supplier factory, Classic Fashion in Jordan.
Please sign onto a statement to support a call for legislation that protects workers in global economy.
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Article on Classic factory in Jordan appears on Huffington Post's front page, documenting corporate indifference in the face of gross worker and women’s rights violations.
Young women workers raped, tortured and beaten at the Classic Factory
Young women guest workers from Sri Lanka and Bangladesh are being repeatedly sexually abused at the Classic Group of factories in Jordan while sewing Hanes "C9" clothing for women and men, which is sold exclusively at Target.
Chinese teenagers toil excessive hours for poverty wages as they manufacture the Microsoft peripherals we use.
