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, […]
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 […]
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 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 […]
Press Releases November 9, 2004
Councilmember Eric Garcetti joined Tom Hayden and representatives from Sweatshop Watch, Progressive Jewish Alliance, Progressive Christians Uniting, garment workers’ union UNITE HERE and the Los Angeles County Federation of Labor, AFL-CIO, to cheer the passage this morning of the nation’s most innovative and far-reaching anti-sweatshop purchasing ordinance to date. The ordinance, which builds on the […]
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