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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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.