Media Resources

 

 

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 2022WWD

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

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