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• LL Bean Responds with Grace

  
  Labor is Not a Commodity — Authority: 416
  Bama Athreya, Executive Director, ILRF   Just in time for Thanksgiving, the outdoor clothing brand LL Bean has made a significant commitment to work with ILRF to end forced child labor in cotton.  Last week, we released our Sweatshop Hall of Shame , and to our surprise, were compelled to name LL Bean as one ...
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• American and Chinese Students Fight for Rights of Workers

  
  Talking Union — Authority: 130
  by Paul Garver American student anti-sweatshop activists have won their first major victory in a decade-long campaign against sweatshop conditions and repression of labor unions in Central America. Russell Athletic, largest supplier of campus team uniforms and logo-wear, fired 145 union supporters and shut down a ...
  1 week ago

• Honduran Workers Win Major Victory with the help of Students and Activists like You!

  
  Labor is Not a Commodity — Authority: 416
  By Jeremy Silva and Eva Seidelman, International Labor Rights Forum Over the weekend was a time for of celebration and relief for many Honduran workers and their families: 1,200 workers who were fired from Russells Jerzees de Honduras (a sports apparel company owned by Fruit of Loom which is owned by Berkshire ...
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• Molly’sBlog 2009-11-19 16:54:00

  
  Anarchoblogs — Authority: 157
  AMERICAN LABOUR-CALIFORNIA: SUPPORT STUDENTS AND STAFF AT THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA: The following appeal is from the United Students Against Sweatshops . Earlier today, after the Board of Regents of the U. of C. failed to listen to the demands below various acts of resistance began on campus. The ...
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• Silicon Sweatshops

  
  MetaFilter — Authority: 751
  Silicon Sweatshops is a five-part investigation of the supply chains that produce many of the worlds most popular technology products, from Apple iPhones, to Nokia cell phones, Dell keyboards and more. The series examines the scope of the problem, including its effects on workers from the Philippines, Taiwan and ...
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• No Blake For Beckham; Supermodel Puts Photos On Display [Rag Trade]

  
  Jezebel — Authority: 813
  Victoria Beckham s team always denies the best rumors. Blake Lively , apparently, will not be the face of her next campaign for the dress line. [ UK Vogue ] Helena Christensen s photographs of climate change in Peru are being exhibited in London. [ BBC ] The sheikh who had such grand plans for Christian ...
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• Good Shirts Doing Good: The Four Corners of Skreened’s Ethical Foundation

  
  Irregular Times: News Unfit for Print — Authority: 515
  Yesterday afternoon, the print-on-demand t-shirt outfit called Skreened renewed its commitment to ethical practice, issuing this statement: 1. Ethically made – inside and out. We start with only American Made garments. That’s our baseline for treating workers at the beginning of the process with respect. ...
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• Ethical giving

  
  Art Institute — Authority: 163
  Do you hear what I hear? Well, besides the Bing Crosby Christmas carols filling mall corridors, that would be the chiming of cash registers as corporations the world over fire up their sweatshops and start tallying their holiday profits.
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• Student Anti-Sweatshop Activists Score Big Win for Honduran Workers

  
  AFL-CIO NOW BLOG — Authority: 656
        In what is being hailed as the biggest victory ever by student anti-sweatshop activists, Russell Athletic, the largest supplier of team uniforms and logo-wear, has agreed to reopen a Honduran factory shut down in January shortly after its workers formed a union and will rehire the 1,200 union ...
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• A Big Win For Team USAS, A Bigger Win For Workers

  
  Left of Centre — Authority: 120
  The New York Times reports this evening on some big news on the anti-sweatshop front. The anti-sweatshop movement at dozens of American universities, from Georgetown to U.C.L.A., has had plenty of idealism and energy, but not many victories. Until now. The often raucous student movement announced on Tuesday that ...
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• Labor Fight Ends in Win for Students

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 905
  The college anti-sweatshop movement persuaded Russell Athletic to agree to rehire 1,200 workers in Honduras.
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• Silicon Sweatshops: Gadget Factories Take a Toll on Workers

  
  Gadget Lab — Authority: 789
  By Thomas Mucha, GlobalPost BOSTON — Do you know who made your iPhone? Sure, that shimmering device in your palm is packed with Silicon Valley smarts. The influence of Steve Jobs and his happy band of engineers is present in its sleek design, ease of use, and cooler-than-thou features that now include some ...
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• Sweatshop

  
  Cybereconomics — Authority: 124
  The book Portfolios of the Poor: How the Worlds Poor Live on $2 a Day examines the financial decisions of poor people in India, Bangladesh, and South Africa. Seeing the problems they face and how they deal with them offers a fascinating view of world poverty. Often the authors will use a specific example to ...
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• ILRF announces Sweatshop Hall of Shame 2010

  
  Labor is Not a Commodity — Authority: 416
  By Juontel White, Intern, International Labor Rights Forum The Sweatshop Hall of Shame features apparel companies that have consistently flouted worker’s rights. This year’s hall of shame highlights companies whose labor practices have failed to comply with international fair labor standards.  The ...
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• Shop with a Conscience Consumer Guide Launched

  
  Labor is Not a Commodity — Authority: 416
  By Brett Eisenbrown, Intern, International Labor Rights Forum As the holiday shopping season rolls around, I often find myself at a lost.  I am not what one calls a “good shopper.”  In fact, when I was younger my mother and I limited ourselves to one day of shopping a year in order to preserve our ...
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• Government Purchasing Policy Forum in Washington, DC

  
  Labor is Not a Commodity — Authority: 416
  Brett Eisenbrown, Intern, International Labor Rights Forum The use of sweatshops to produce the goods we consume is not the exception but, unfortunately, it is the rule.  While the very idea of people having to endure such working conditions in order to try and provide for themselves and their families is ...
  2 weeks ago

• Purchasing Ethics: Picking out Clothing With Limited Information

  
  Irregular Times: News Unfit for Print — Authority: 515
  The United States Department of Labor has come out with a 194-page report in which it identifies products made in various countries under conditions where “there is a significant incidence of forced labor and/or child labor in production”. The following are countries in which the Department of Labor finds there ...
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• New Primark store faces ‘dirty washing’ protest

  
  Daisy Green — Authority: 139
  War on Wants Ruth Tanner joins the dirty washing campaign The Love Fashion Hate Sweatshops campaigners have been at it again. As Primark’s new London store opened its doors yesterday, they hung out the retailer’s ‘dirty washing’ in public with a clothes line that cited workers making its clothes for as ...
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• Rachel Maddow takes on corporations defending child and forced labor

  
  Labor is Not a Commodity — Authority: 416
  Tim Newman, Campaigns Director, International Labor Rights Forum Recently, Rachel Maddow picked up on an article written by David Sirota about how business groups are lobbying against provisions in a customs bill that contains provisions banning the importation of goods produced by convict labor, forced labor or ...
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• PSA: Carl Fillichio on “The Best Gig You Can Have”

  
  Understanding Government — Authority: 436
  Part of Understanding Government’s new Public Service Announcement series featuring federal employees and profiles of what they do By Norman Kelley You would expect a certain amount of spin from an interview with a Labor Department public affairs official about his work. However, Carl Fillichio truly likes what ...
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