When the 1990 Peace Accords were signed in Central America, the NLC became a registered non-profit and moved its headquarters to New York City, where it expanded its mission to defend human and worker rights globally.
"[4] Since then, the Institute has exposed the conditions under which many celebrity labels are made, including those of Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen, Sean Combs, Thalia Sodi, and Daisy Fuentes.
For an NBC Dateline segment on the work of the National Labor Committee in 2005, Kernaghan wore a pair of eyeglasses with an embedded hidden camera to document conditions inside Bangladeshi plants that produce goods for U.S. companies.
As well as focusing on name-brand companies, the Institute also criticized celebrities with clothing lines from factories with labor violations, utilizing their public image to gain media attention.
[6] The Decent Working Conditions and Fair Competition Act was originally written by the National Labor Committee, in collaboration with the United Steelworkers of America and Senator Byron Dorgan (D-ND).