Media Resources
Over nearly twenty-five years of organizing, GWC has pushed the narratives surrounding the garment worker struggle from hyper local to transnational levels.
Our work centers the voices of garment workers, and we encourage all reporters, editors, media producers, academics and beyond to consider those most materially impacted by narratives around garment production, fashion, sustainability, labor, and so on to also foreground these voices throughout their reportage and commentary.
For all Garment Worker Center-related requests, please email media@garmentworkercenter.org
Selected Press Clippings
The high price of cheap clothes — Marketplace / This is Uncomfortable
California’s Government and Garment Worker Advocates Gear Up to Take on Trump — Sourcing Journal
Slow Fashion Caucus
Inside the Slow Fashion Congressional Caucus — Teen Vogue
Can Congress break our addiction to fast fashion? — Washington Post
FABRIC Act
Garment Workers Are Getting Closer to a Fair Wage — The Nation
The importance of America’s Fabric Act “can’t be overstated” — Vogue
FABRIC Act Wants to Make American Manufacturing Great Again — Sourcing Journal
California’s Garment Worker Bill Will Fuel The ‘Made In USA’ Comeback. Here’s Why — Forbes
3 cents per piece to hourly pay for CA garment workers: Will US follow? — KCRW
A Look at the Movements Making the Fashion Industry Cleaner, Kinder, and Safer — InStyle
WWD Yearbook: Sustainable Fashion’s Big Wins in 2022 —WWD
A national US fashion bill is coming: What to know on the FABRIC Act — Vogue
Protecting DTLA Garment Jobs
The garment industry, excluded from downtown planning, finally gets to have its say — LA Times
LA’s Zoning Plan Pits Garment Workers Against Developers — The Nation
Garment workers fight to stay in the Fashion District — LAist
How the future of sustainable fashion is rooted in the fight for garment worker protections in LA — The 19th
Garment, Hospitality workers win key vote at PLUM Committee for DTLA 2040 plan — MSN
Rezoning Proposal Puts Historic L.A. Fashion District in Peril — Sourcing Journal
LA’s Zoning Plan Pits Garment Workers Against Developers — The Nation
Protestan trabajadores de la industria de la moda en Los Ángeles — Univision
Cientos de trabajadores de costura salen a protestar: exigen que se deje intacto el lugar donde tienen sus negocios — Univision
SB62 / Garment Worker Protection Act
For Activists, The Garment Worker Protection Act Is Just The Beginning — Refinery29
California Just Passed a Landmark Bill to Protect Garment Workers—Here’s What It Means for the Entire Fashion Industry — Vogue
Op-Ed: Garment workers behind ‘Made in the USA’ labels are horribly underpaid. Newsom can end the wage theft — LA Times
Garment workers in America’s fashion capital may make just $6 an hour. A new law could change that — The Guardian
What California’s new law means for garment workers and businesses — NPR Marketplace
ROSS
‘Dress for less’ at what cost? Garment workers protest Ross stores — Liberation News
On Wage Theft & Sweat Shop Conditions
Behind a $13 shirt, a $6-an-hour worker — LA Times
A Workers’ Guide to Wage Theft: What to Do If Your Boss Steals Your Wages — KCET
‘All I can think about is the sun’: How workers are coping with California’s heat wave — LA Times
On Fast Fashion
Excitement And Alarm Greet Online Fast Fashion Giant Shein’s LA Expansion — LAist
Longform
The FABRIC Act with Garment Worker Center’s Nayantara Banerjee — Swap Society
Reweaving the Garment Industry: A conversation with the Garment Worker Center — El Cafecito del Día
Organizational Profile
Los Angeles’s Garment District Is Still Home to Severe Exploitation — Jacobin