Edited sentence: According to the protestors, Mathews refused to meet the workers.Jessica T.Mathews is a Board Member of HanesBrands.Mathews, the current president of the institute, has become a source of controversy for the institute due to the claims by the International Labor Rights Forum that garment workers at the TOS factory owned by HanesBrands Inc.On March 14, 2008, students and labor activists demonstrated outside the Washington, D.One worker from the Hanes factory, Julio Castillo, carried a poster with the slogan "Human Rights Hypocrite of the year".headquarters of the Carnegie Endowment, in order to "pressure" Mathews to "use her power as a Hanes board member to end sweatshop conditions" at the factory.in the Dominican Republic are subject to serious workers' rights violations