# Center for Business and Human Rights Senior Program Manager Casey O'Connor is quoted in an article about improving labor conditions in the supply chains of large-scale retailers such as Walmart

1 School News August 12, 2019 ![retail dive logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/Retail-Dive-logo-feature_0.jpg?itok=3-tORRZm)>

Excerpt from [Retail Dive](https://www.retaildive.com/news/is-walmart-doing-enough-to-protect-workers-in-its-supply-chain/560079/) -- "'Audits are certainly important,' Casey O'Connor, senior program manager for New York University's Stern Center for Business and Human Rights, said in an interview with Retail Dive. 'But I think it's fair to say that there's industry consensus that audits alone have not really moved the needle on a lot of the kind of problematic labor conditions that remain fairly pervasive in the apparel industry.'"

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