THE FABRIC ACT

The Fashioning Accountability and Building Real Institutional Change (FABRIC Act / S.4312), introduced in the Senate by Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (NY) and in the House of Representatives by Carolyn Maloney (NY), would protect nearly 100,000 American garment workers and revitalize the garment industry in the United States by investing in domestic apparel production, improving working conditions, and reforming the piece-rate pay scale.

The FABRIC Act reweaves American garment manufacturing in 4 central pillars:

1) Enforces minimum wage standards, ending wage theft
2) Combats factory violations with workplace protections
3) Increases transparency of brand practices
4) Revitalizes domestic manufacturing with a multi-million dollar grant program

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The Garment Worker Center (GWC)

is a worker rights organization whose mission is to organize low-wage garment workers in Los Angeles in the fight for social and economic justice

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PROTECT L.A.'S GARMENT JOBS

Los Angeles is the nation’s garment production capital and the city’s largest manufacturing sector. Over 45,000 workers cut, sew and finish garments locally, a workforce comprised primarily of Latino/a and Asian immigrants. The Los Angeles garment industry is notorious for operating within a complex, multi-layered system of fierce competition, in which thousands of small factories compete to obtain contracts with manufacturers by providing high volume and quick turnaround. To do so, contract owners “sweat” work out of their employees while garment manufacturers and retailers reap tremendous profits and routinely deny responsibility for the conditions in which their garments were produced.

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The Garment Worker Center (GWC)

is a worker rights organization whose mission is to organize low-wage garment workers in Los Angeles in the fight for social and economic justice

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OUR VISION

Our vision is that Los Angeles garment workers transform the fashion industry to eliminate sweatshop labor. Workers lead the fight for safe and dignified workplace with fair wages. We build power from the bottom up for social and economic justice.

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OUR MISSION

Through direct organizing we help develop leaders who demand enforcement of strong labor laws and accountability from factory owners, manufacturers, and fashion brands. GWC centers immigrant workers, women of color, and their families.

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Resources for Workers

Our issues intersect with the need for immigration reform, affordable childcare options, and housing justice. We seek to improve the lives of all workers and their families. GWC members form committees to lead our campaigns to transform the industry through better laws and by holding fashion brands accountable for the poor wages and working conditions in the factories they use. To get involved, please consider becoming a member.

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Los Angeles is the nation’s garment production capital and the city’s largest manufacturing sector. Over 45,000 workers cut, sew and finish garments locally, a workforce comprised primarily of Latino/a and Asian immigrants. The Los Angeles garment industry is notorious for operating within a complex, multi-layered system of fierce competition, in which thousands of small factories compete to obtain contracts with manufacturers by providing high volume and quick turnaround. To do so, contract owners “sweat” work out of their employees while garment manufacturers and retailers reap tremendous profits and routinely deny responsibility for the conditions in which their garments were produced.

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309 E 8th St., Suite 302 Los Angeles, CA 90014

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