Gildan Activewear Inc

Gildan Activewear operates large-scale apparel manufacturing facilities in Honduras, where it has faced multiple, independent labor rights investigations over more than a decade. In 2009, the Worker Rights Consortium (WRC) documented systematic violations at Gildan’s Rio Nance facility, including the illegal dismissal of workers attempting to organize a union. A subsequent 2014 WRC investigation found that Gildan’s subsidiary, Gildan de Honduras, had again interfered with union organizing at its Villanueva facility, leading to the dismissal of union supporters.

In 2021, the WRC issued a third report detailing ongoing anti-union conduct at Gildan’s San Miguel facility, where management conducted unlawful surveillance of workers and threatened union members with dismissal. This pattern of repeated, substantiated violations across different factories and years, as documented by the same independent monitor, indicates a systemic failure to uphold basic worker rights to freedom of association. The company’s operations in Honduras have been a persistent focus of international labor rights campaigns, with no public evidence of a reformed, company-wide policy to prevent such violations.