Posts April 14, 2009
Federal, state and local tax dollars are being used to buy products made in sweatshops, according to a new report released today by SweatFree Communities titled Subsidizing Sweatshops II: How our tax dollars can foster worker rights and economic recovery rather than fuel the race to the bottom. Findings include child labor, obligatory pregnancy tests, […]
Posts October 6, 2005
At over 40 campuses across the United States, students are demanding that their colleges and universities take the next step in ending sweatshops. The United Students Against Sweatshops (USAS) has developed the New Sweatfree Campaign, which demands that all collegiate apparel brands source from good factories, where workers have a legitimate, representative union or other […]
Press Mentions April 14, 2008
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Press Releases March 9, 2006
(Washington, DC)-At a press conference today, UNITE HERE released “Conduct Unbecoming: Sweatshops and the U.S. Military Uniform Industry,” documenting poor working conditions in factories that make uniforms for the armed forces. The report finds that uniforms for our country’s enlisted men and women are often sewn in domestic sweatshops with conditions more like what people […]
Press Releases July 30, 2008
New York – UNITE HERE welcomes the recent resolution by Governor Edward G. Rendell committing Pennsylvania to participate in the State and Local Government SweatFree Consortium. According to Governor Rendell, “taxpayer funds should not be used to support sweatshops that profit from the sale of goods while workers are denied basic human rights.” UNITE HERE […]
Posts June 30, 2005
San Francisco, CA-“Earlier this week, Mayor Gavin Newsom and Supervisor Tom Ammiano held a press conference to introduce anti-sweatshop legislation that, if passed by the board, will become the strongest sweatshop-free legislation and a model that can be adopted by cities throughout the country. Over the past six months, a coalition of 50 labor, faith-based, […]
UNITE HERE represents workers throughout the United States and Canada.