🌍 Job Opportunity: Haiti Researcher (Part-Time) 🌟 The Worker Rights Consortium (WRC) is hiring a Haiti Researcher based in the US for a 6-month term (extendable) with a monthly compensation of $1,300 - $1,500. This role involves conducting worker interviews, report preparation, and liaising with NGOs and unions. Fluency in French, Creole, and English is required, along with 2+ years of experience in human/labor rights. This position is covered by a union contract. To apply, send your resume and cover letter to recruitment@workersrights.org. #JobOpening #NowHiring #JobOpportunity #HaitiResearcher #WorkersRights #Careers https://lnkd.in/dJJHPUd
Worker Rights Consortium
Civic and Social Organizations
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Monitoring and enforcing labor rights in garment factories around the world
About us
The Worker Rights Consortium (WRC) is an independent labor rights monitoring organization. We investigate working conditions in factories around the globe. Our purpose is to document and combat sweatshop conditions; identify and expose the practices of global brands and retailers that perpetuate labor rights abuses; and protect the rights of workers who make apparel and other products. The WRC conducts independent, worker-centered investigations; issues public reports on factories producing for major brands; and aids workers at these factories in their efforts to end violations and defend their workplace rights. The WRC has investigators in twelve countries and works with hundreds of civil society organizations in Southeast Asia, East Asia, South Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean, and sub-Saharan Africa. Decent conditions and wages for the world’s manufacturing workers requires systemic change in global supply chains of leading brand—change that brands and retailers will not voluntarily undertake. Toward this end, in addition to our factory-specific work, the WRC seeks to foster binding agreements between worker representatives and global corporations. In a global economy where meaningful public enforcement of labor standards is scant, and where voluntary “corporate social responsibility” programs have consistently failed to protect workers, enforceable private agreements—like the Accord on Fire and Building Safety in Bangladesh, which the WRC helped to create and implement—are the best mechanism available to generate concrete gains for workers. Founded in 2000 by international labor rights experts, students, and leading universities, the WRC assists universities with enforcement of binding labor standards they have adopted to protect workers producing apparel and other goods bearing university logos. The WRC has university and college affiliates in the United States and Canada and works with government entities seeking to enforce human rights standards.
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http://workersrights.org/
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- Civic and Social Organizations
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- 11-50 employees
- Headquarters
- Washington D.C., Washington D.C.
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- Nonprofit
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- 2000
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Washington D.C., Washington D.C. 20005, US
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Today marks the 11th anniversary of the tragic collapse of the Rana Plaza building in Dhaka, Bangladesh, which claimed the lives of over 1,100 garment workers and left thousands critically injured. On this solemn anniversary, the Accord pays tribute to the victims, the survivors, and those enduring the impact of one of the most devastating workplace disasters in modern history. Alongside our signatories and stakeholders, the Accord remains committed to ensuring that garment factory workers are safeguarded with a safe and healthy work environment as a fundamental principle and right at work. We urge more brands to join us in this effort by signing the Accord and putting worker safety at the core of their garment supply chains. https://lnkd.in/es7zy5Sk
11 years since the Rana Plaza collapse in Bangladesh
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📢 Global brands and trade unions have renewed the International Accord. Negotiations between representatives of global clothing brands and trade unions, UNI Global Union & and IndustriALL Global Union , have resulted in an agreement to ensure health and safety in the clothing supply chains of brand signatories in Bangladesh, Pakistan, and other garment-producing countries in the future. Read the full statement: https://lnkd.in/ejCvKSyd Explore the renewed International Accord: https://lnkd.in/eVXsKs7n #InternationalAccord #WorkplaceSafety #HRDD
Agreement on International Accord Framework for Health and Safety Programs
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Our new white paper looks at how 16 leading fashion brands responded to the devastating #TurkeyEarthquake and how their purchasing practices affected suppliers in the region. All 16 brands reported extending deadlines on clothing orders in production at the time of the quake, which no doubt dampened the brutal impact of the disaster on suppliers and garment workers. But this is the bare minimum brands could and should have done amid this enduring humanitarian disaster, and most brands did little else. Supplier testimony reflects the consequences of brands' lack of support: according to a survey of 200+ suppliers in the affected region conducted by researchers at Middle Eastern Technical University, 48% of suppliers in the survey couldn't pay their workers in full and 33% were forced to place workers on unpaid leave. Brands need to urgently undo the harm their purchasing practices have caused and meet their responsibilities under the #UNPGs.
Leading Apparel Brands Tolerated Delivery Delays Resulting from Türkiye Earthquake; but Most Have Done Little Else to Support Survivors
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