What specifically is needed to stop the abuses?
Hanes must take immediate action to stop each of the ongoing labor rights abuses at TOS Dominicana. These include verbal harassment and abuse, undercompensated overtime, failure to compensate night workers correctly, and unsafe conditions, among others. But above all, Hanes must cease violations of workers’ rights to join a trade union and negotiate a collective bargaining agreement. In order to improve conditions, workers have organized a union with broad support at the factory. But factory management has responded with an unrelenting campaign of intimidation and retaliation – interrogating workers about their union membership, spying on workers on union meetings outside of the factory, and firing workers who refuse to resign from the union. We believe that the many abuses at the factory can be quickly corrected if management ceases its illegal union busting campaign and instead works with the worker representatives to provide decent labor conditions. Management should immediately rec
