National Labor Committee

Punishing workers for taking sick leave puts Wal-Mart on track to be a major spreader of swine flu this fall. The retail giant gives workers demerits and deducts pay for staying home when they are ...

The NLC investigates and exposes human and labor rights abuses committed by U.S. companies producing goods in the developing world.

Imported frozen broccoli from Guatemala appears to be in the same class as expensive Nike sneakers—at least in regard to the surprisingly large mark-up on their retail prices. (2007)

The shipbreakers do some of the most dangerous jobs in the world, toiling 12 hours a day, seven days a week, for wages of just 22 to 32 cents an hour, handling and breathing in dangerous toxic waste with ...

APPENDICESA. – Key OrganizationsB. – Interview with Syeda Rizwana Hasan, BELAC. – Lists of U.S. and Chinese Ships being broken in Bangladesh

Haaretz, August 16, 2009, "I worked 12-hour days, seven days a week, with oneday off per month'" By Dana Weiler-Polak

Foreign guest workers from Bangladesh were trafficked to Jordan and stripped of their passports at the Musa garment factory in the Al Hasan Industrial park. The guest workers are housed in crowded, ...

The Muse Textile factory is reported to be owned by an Israeli, Mr. Musa. In Jordan, the factory is called “Musa Garments.”

The military coup d’état in Honduras is a dangerous step backward for Honduras and threatens democracy across Central America.

With China’s exports reeling and unemployment rising because of the global slowdown, there is growing evidence that factories are ignoring or evading a new contract labor law.

Unprecedented Victory for Workers across the Developing World!! Metro has bent to pressure and will put production orders back into R.L. Denim. This is a huge victory for the mostly young women workers in Bangladesh, one that could also give hope to workers all across the developing world. The vi...