Title: Worker Rights Consortium

Source/Sponsoring Agency: Worker Rights Consortium

URL: http://www.workersrights.org/

Date Checked: 6/11/2009      Status: Active

Date Annotated: 4/25/2008

Topics: Employment Law; Economics; Foreign Law; Human Rights Law; International Law; International Trade

Other keywords: Unions; Sweatshops; Collegiate apparel; Clothing manufacturing; Labor rights

Contents: The Worker Rights Consortium (WRC) is a non-profit organization created by college and university administrations, students, and labor rights experts. The WRC's purpose is to assist in the enforcement of codes of conduct for manufacturing adopted by colleges and universities; these codes are designed to ensure that the factories producing clothing and other goods bearing college and university names and logos respect the basic rights of workers. The WRC website provides detailed information about the Consortium’s “Factory Assessment Program,” in which the WRC investigates working conditions at factories which produce collegiate apparel and other goods, and produces detailed reports about their inquiries, available to the public. The VRC’s investigative protocols are also published. The WRC maintains an on-line database of factories engaged in the production of collegiate goods, searchable by college or university, licensee company, country, and factory. Search results may be sorted by licensee or factory. Most documents on this site are published in PDF; some reports are in languages other than English.

Author of Annotation: B. Kreisler/J. Cusker