National Labor Committee in Support of Human and Worker Rights

The National Labor Committee in Support of Human and Worker Rights, commonly known as the National Labor Committee or the NLC, is a non-profit non-governmental organization (NGO) founded in 1981 by David Dyson to combat sweatshop labor and United States government policy in El Salvador and Central America. Today the NLC has offices in New York City, Bangladesh, and Central America; when Dyson left to become Executive Minister of Fort Greene's Lafayette Avenue Presbyterian Church, Charles Kernaghan became Executive Director.

The National Labor Committee engages in fact-finding missions throughout the world to expose and document labor and human rights abuses; they then use this information to raise public awareness in an effort to change corporate policy. In addition to targeting stores and manufacturers, they often target celebrities who have clothing lines. Their 1996 discovery that Kathie Lee Gifford's Wal-Mart clothing line was being manufactured in Honduran sweatshops is often cited as the beginning of mainstream media coverage of the sweatshop phenomenon. Since then, the NLC has exposed the conditions under which many celebrity labels are made, including those of Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen, Sean Combs(also known as P Diddy) and, most recently, Thalia Sodi.

They often work with labor unions and other human rights groups; one their closest allies has been United Students Against Sweatshops (USAS), who they assisted in forming the Worker Rights Consortium in an effort to fight the use of sweatshops in manufacturing collegiate apparel.

The NLC has also worked with the United Steel Workers of America and Senator Byron Dorgan (D-ND) to draft the "Decent Working Conditions and Fair Competition Act," which was introduced in both the United States House of Representatives and the United States Senate in 2006.