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2015 ANNUAL REPORT
I N T E R N AT I O N A L L A B O R R I G H T S F O R U M
Dear Friends,
2015 marked ILRF’s completion of three decades fighting for dignity and justice for workers
worldwide. As we prepared for our 30th anniversary in 2016, we took stock of the many ways
that ILRF has been an instrumental force in stimulating solutions to advance workers’ rights
and labor standards around the world.
In the early 1980s, strong voices in human rights, labor, academic, and faith-based
communities formed a coalition to fight for the rights of workers in international trade. In
1984, the coalition succeeded in winning legislation linking the granting of U.S. trade and
investment benefits – through the Generalized System of Preferences (GSP) – to a country’s
respect for fundamental labor rights. In 1986, the group founded the International Labor
Rights Forum to monitor enforcement of these laws and to develop other means to protect
workers’ rights globally.
We have continued to propose, negotiate and secure legal reforms and more meaningful
corporate accountability policies and we have tested and critiqued each new reform
to make them more effective for workers. Today, we are pushing for a sea change in
corporate accountability: to move away from the voluntary, confidential “corporate
social responsibility” programs that have repeatedly sidelined workers’ voices, towards
transparent, legally-binding agreements negotiated between corporations and unions. And
we are pursuing multi-layered strategies to advance labor law reforms. In today’s time of
increased migration, debt bondage and human trafficking, we must push back against laws
that make it illegal for migrant workers to organize and bargain collectively.
Please visit the About section of our website – www.laborrights.org – to see some of the
highlights of ILRF’s impact over the years. What stands out throughout the timeline is that
all of our greatest successes have been linked to strong grassroots partners and transnational
movements that generate solidarity and unite advocacy campaigns.
Please join us and support one or all of our campaigns by taking action online, joining a
demonstration, or donating to help us sustain our ability to continue innovating and
advocating for workers’ rights in global supply chains.
In solidarity,
Judy Gearhart
Executive Director
The International Labor Rights Forum is a
human rights organization that advocates for
workers globally. We hold global corporations
accountable for labor rights violations, advance
policies and laws that protect workers, and
strengthen workers’ ability to advocate for their
rights.
1634 I ST NW, SUITE 1001WASHINGTON, DC 20006 USA
T: +1 202 347 [email protected]
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
President: Yvette Herrera, Communications Workers of America
Vice President: Lance Compa, Cornell University
Secretary: Carol Rosenblatt, Coalition of Labor Union Women
Treasurer: Katherine Isaac, Consultant
Kim Bobo, Virginia Interfaith Center for Public Policy
John Cavanagh, Institute for Policy Studies
Eric Dirnbach, LiUNA
Cam Duncan, Northern New Mexico Central Labor Council
Joe Eldridge, American University
Cathy Feingold, AFL-CIO
Sarita Gupta, Jobs with Justice
Mark Harrison, United Methodist General Board of Church and Society
Owen Herrnstadt, International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers
Lorretta Johnson, American Federation of Teachers
Yvette Pena-O’Sullivan, LiUNA
Robert J.S. Ross, Clark University
Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky
Daniel Smith, ILRF General Counsel, Amalgamated Transit Union
Ashwini Sukthankar, UNITE HERE!
Christopher Townsend, Amalgamated Transit Union
STAFF
Diana Alonzo Watkins, Senior Development Officer
Aisha Brown, Director of Finance and Administration
Matt Fischer-Daly, Cotton Campaign Coordinator
Liana Foxvog, Director of Organizing and Communications
Judy Gearhart, Executive Director
Eric Gottwald, Legal and Policy Director
Kevin Lin, China Program Officer
Marian Manapsal, Fundraising & Operations Assistant
Abby McGill, Director of Campaigns
Caitrin McKee, USLEAP Stephen Coats Memorial Fellow
Whitney Pierson, Financial & Operations Assistant
Andy Shen, Senior Legal & Policy Analyst
Organizations listed for identification purposes only
JANUARY• Thai government scraps plan to use prison labor at sea
after ILRF leads international opposition campaign
FEBRUARY• ILRF’s Valentine’s Day cards informed about the low
wages that cocoa farmers earn
MARCH• Raised urgent issues of violations of women’s rights
at work during the UN Commission on the Status of
Women meetings
APRIL• Brought a delegation of activists and faith-based
leaders to Bangladesh for the second anniversary of
the Rana Plaza building collapse
• Helped coordinate a global day of action
remembering Rana Plaza workers
• Worked with John Oliver’s team in advance of Last Week Tonight’s fashion story
MAY• Submitted comments to U.S. government on
protecting workers’ rights through procurement
• Co-published Principles for Free and Fair Labor in
Palm Oil Production
JUNE• Campaign victory: Compensation secured for Rana
Plaza victims and families
• Celebrated the 2015 Labor Rights Defenders
• Held briefing on child labor in tobacco fields with the
Child Labor Coalition
• Published Golden Veneer, documenting union-busting
at a farm supplying McDonald’s
JULY• With Peruvian unions, filed complaint against the
government of Peru for dismissing workers for
union activity and employing workers on fraudulent
contracts
• Supported independent monitoring of forced labor in
Uzbek cotton fields, and urged ILO to recognize forced
labor in its own monitoring
AUGUST• Delivered petition with over 20,000 signatures
to Reynolds American calling on the company to
improve conditions for tobacco farmworkers
SEPTEMBER• Amplified EUROBAN’s Make Fruit Fair action on
pineapples in Costa Rica
OCTOBER• Launched campaign against H&M for its failure to
keep its factory safety promise
NOVEMBER• Raised concerns about forced labor at the Roundtable
on Sustainable Palm Oil conference
• Amplified Cambodian garment workers’ demands for
a minimum wage of $177/month
DECEMBER• Released ILRF report Our Voices, Our Safety,
documenting Bangladeshi garment worker voices
• Urged World Bank to stop supporting forced labor in
Uzbekistan with action projecting images onto Bank
headquarters
Photo credits in order of appearance: UFCW; Simon Buxton / Anti-
Slavery International; ILRF; Presbyterian Hunger Program; Stephen
Baranovic/ILRF; CC BY-NC 2.0, Photo by Marco Simola for Center for
International Forestry Research (CIFOR); Reuters; Liz Gorman
2015 YEAR IN REVIEWFIGHTING FOR DIGNITY AND JUSTICE FOR WORKERS WORLDWIDE
INTERNATIONAL LABOR RIGHTS FORUM
THANK YOU TO OUR SUPPORTERS
21st Century ILGWU Heritage Fund
Donor-Advised Fund
Humanity United
Landau Family Foundation
Moriah Fund
Naomi and Nehemiah Cohen
Foundation
National Endowment for Democracy
New Society Fund
Norman Foundation
Open Society Foundation
Presbyterian Hunger Program
United Methodist Church,
General Board of Global Ministries
U.S. Department of State
SPONSORS OF THE 2015 LABOR RIGHTS DEFENDERS AWARDS
AFL-CIO
Amalgamated Bank
Amalgamated Transit Union
American Eagle Outfitters, Inc.
American Federation of Government
Employees
American Federation of Teachers
American Postal Workers Union
Bama Athreya
Anna Burger
Brenna Dougan
Cam and Susan Duncan
Caroline Ramsay Merriam
Cathy Hurwit
Chris Townsend
Communications Workers of America
David and Judy Bonior
Doyle Printing
Eileen Fisher
Elizabeth Colton
Equal Exchange
Eric Dirnbach
Fontheim International
Fruit of the Loom
GlobalWorks Foundation
GoodWeave International
International Association of Machinists
and Aerospace Workers
International Brotherhood of
Boilermakers
International Brotherhood of Electrical
Workers
International Brotherhood of Teamsters
Joe Eldridge and Maria Otero
Judy Gearhart and Rainer Braun
Jules Bernstein
L Brands
Laborers’ International Union of
North America
Levi Strauss & Co.
Markley Roberts
Martin Ma
May Ying Chen
National Consumers League
National Education Association
National Postal Mail Handlers Union
Oxfam America
Peter and Toni Gearhart
PVH Corp.
Solidarity Center
Sorini Samet & Associates, LLC
The Kresge Foundation
Ullico, Inc.
UNITE HERE
United Association of Plumbers and
Pipefitters
United Brotherhood of Carpenters and
Joiners of America
United Mine Workers of America
Washington Office on Latin America
$1000+Anonymous Donor
Bama Athreya
Medea Benjamin
Kim Bobo
David & Judy Bonior
Elizabeth Colton
Lance Compa
Eric Dirnbach
Cam Duncan
Joe Eldridge
Bill Fletcher & Candice Cason
Toni & Peter Gearhart
Trina Hamilton
Alice Jenkins
Susan Lloyd
Gail Lopez-Henriquez
Robert Lyman
William Mascioli*
Kevin Middlebrook
Kathleen Ruff
Andrew Samet
David Suisman
Sheela Vinod
Theodore Von Der Ahe
$500+Judy Ancel
Virginia Baker
Anna Burger
May Ying Chen
Donald Clelland
Brenna Dougan
Cam & Susan Duncan
Louise Rice & Tess Ewing
Ann Stark & Doug Foxvog
Judy Gearhart & Rainer Braun
Cathy Hurwit
Katherine Isaac
Scott Littlehale
Ying Ma
Gerrish Milliken
Joanna Moresky
Monique Morrissey
Mary Naftzger
Nathan & Kate Nicely*
Sheila Payne & Paul Ortiz
Carl Proper*
Markley Roberts
Natalie Rodgers*
Nina Smith
Arthur Wortman
Paul Zarembka
$100+Andrew Abraham
Murray Abramsky
Juan Alvarez
Richard Appelbaum
Michael Arney
Antoine Auchlin
Margaret M. Baillie
Linda Bajkowsky
Peter Bakvis
Rebecca Ballard
Marian Beane
Tim Beaty
Allison Beck
Malcolm and Nancy Bell
Robert Bernstein
Eric Biel
Simon Billenness
David Black
Doron Blake*
Diana Bohn
Heather & Paul Booth
Robin Broad & John Cavanagh
Todd Brogan
Kate Bronfenbrenner*
Ann Brown
E. Wayles Browne
Gerald Burke
Martha W. D. Bushnell
Frances Caplan
Daniel Cardozo*
David Caroll
Barry Castleman
Gabriel Chen
George Cheney
Noam Chomsky
Daniel Clifton
Patricia & Robert Coats
Gordon Schiff & Mardge Cohen
Carol Cohn
Sandra Coliver
Joan Countryman
Michelle Couturier
Martha Cray
Robert Creamer
Leanna Curley*
Bryson Davis*
Kenneth Rolling & Rochelle
Davis
Nira Desai
Jesse Dewitt
Daniel Drake
Susan DuBois
Yu-Lan Duggan
David Dunning
Daniel Ehrenberg
Eddie Eitches
Yasmine Ergas
Waheeda Esmail*
Fred Feinstein
Joan Fletcher
Sarah Fox
Bette Frundt
William Frymoyer
Ziva Galili
Vincent Gallagher
Stefano Giani
Kathryn Giles
Martin & Nina Goldberg
Susan Goldman
Bruce Goldstein
Autumn Gonzalez*
Connie & Ken Graham
Edward C. Gray
Peter Greenberg
Sarita Gupta & Eddie Acosta
Pharis Harvey*
Jane Heald
Zachary Henige
Richard Henighan
Owen Herrnstadt
Richard R. Heuser
Jennifer Hill*
Loren Hintz
Gordon Hislop
Ann Hoffman
Richard Horvitz
Kathy Hughes
Constance Hunter
Jill Jacobs
Todd Jailer
Rebecca Jennings
Jerri Jerreat*
David Johnson
Ayana Johnson
Karen Judd
Henry Kahn
Aryay L. Kalaki
Sheryl Kane
Allison Kiessling
Robert Kingsley
Karl Klare
David Klein
Lois Klingeman
Jan Knight
Joanne Koslofsky
Roberta De Araujo & Ronald
Kreisman
Tjwg Kurstjens
Ira Kurzban
Yochanan Kushnir
Burritt Lacy
Gary Cozette & Joe Lada
Erik & Caitlin Lang
Kaiulani Lee
Robert Leski
Jennifer Levin
René Levy
Theodore Lieverman
Robin Lloyd
Jacqueline Loiselle
Fernando Lopes
Stephanie Luce
Walter & Ruth MacGinitie
Kirby MacLaurin
Karen Mahaffey
Danila Manapsal
Joseph Mannion
Peter and Frances Marcuse
Steve Marquardt
Christine Matthews
John McDiarmid
Rob McGarrah
Kevin McGimpsey
Barbara Bordwell Mcgrew
Heidi Mclean
Devin McMahon*
Craig Merrilees
Ellen Messing
George Miller
Suzanne Miller*
Richard Miller
Enid Eckstein & Richard Monks
Hans Christian Monsen
Edward Munyak
Nora Murad
Rachel Neild
Daniel Nicolai
William K. Nisbet
Katharine Nixon
Robert Nixon
Steven Nutter
M. Ochs
John O’Connor
R. Dennis Olson
Sandra Kathleen Orange
Stephen Oren
Helen Ortmann
Robin Pacific
Barbara Parsons
Alison Pease
Yvette Pena-O’Sullivan
Christine Pendzich
Elizabeth Pernotto
Kurt Petersen
Sharon Phillipps
Oliver Fein & Charlotte Phillips
Dwight Pierson
Anne Posthuma
Lenny Potash
Desta Raines
Vijay Rajan
Caroline Ramsay Merriam
Maureen Raymo
Glenn Rehn*
Rene Richardson
Allen Riddell
Steven Riedhauser
Stephen Rock
Pamela Rogers
Carol Rosenblatt
Yair Rosenthal
Robert J.S. Ross*
Herbert Rothschild
Heinz Rotter
Marcia Rucker
John Ruthrauff
Richard Sanders
Mary Ann & Bob Savard
Erich Franz Schimps
Lori Schlabach
Florence Schreibstein
Gerry Scott*
Judith Scott
Michael Selmi
Walter Sepic
James Sessions
John S. and Rebecca P. Shockley
Bernice Silverman
Sally Silvers
Dan Smith
Russell Smith
Amy Crosson & John Soluri
Carolyn Sonfield
Dale Sorensen
Ann Sprayregen & Stan Sperber
Burton Steck
Marc Steinberg
Douglas Stevick*
James Stolz
Lee and Byron Stookey
Eileen Storey
Linda Stork
Janet Strangeways*
Gary Stroud
Lindsay Sullivan*
Valerie Sutter
Sarah Tappon
David Temple
Hans Theyer
Doug Thompson
Trina Tocco*
Chris Townsend
Merry Tucker
Jill Tucker
Charles & Letitia Ufford
Robert V. Jacobson
Don Wakefield
Vicki Walker
Duane Waln*
Jonathan Weissglass
Thurman Wenzl
Jeffrey Wheeler
Virginia White
John Whitton*
Bryce Wiebe
Cheryl Wilfong
Deborah Willis
James Wilson
Judith & Arnold Wishnia
Nancy Wohlforth
Edward Wong
Katya Woolard
Charles Wright
Clifford Yeary*
Rena Yechieli
Coletta Youngers
Mike Zielinski
Paula Gorlitz & Steven Zuckerman
*Monthly Sustaining Donor
2015 FINANCIAL SUMMARY
$ 1,169,318
$ 381,322
$ 262,288
$ 9,184
$ 1,822,112
Foundations
Government
Individual Donors
Other Income
Total
$ 720,371
$ 603,428
$ 195,584
$ 163,860
$ 69,864
$ 1,753,107
Rights at Work
Ending Child & Forced Labor
Fundraising & Development
Management & General
Other Programs
Total
ExpensesRevenue
64% Foundations 21%
Government
14%Individuals
1%Other Income
41%Rights at Work
34%Ending Child & Forced Labor
9%Management &
General
11%Fundraising & Development
4%Other Programs