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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 ...
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• Purchasing Ethics: Picking out Clothing With Limited Information

  
  Irregular Times: News Unfit for Print — Authority: 548
  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 ...
  2 days ago

• New Primark store faces ‘dirty washing’ protest

  
  Daisy Green — Authority: 138
  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 ...
  2 days ago

• 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 ...
  3 days ago

• PSA: Carl Fillichio on “The Best Gig You Can Have”

  
  Understanding Government — Authority: 139
  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 ...
  5 days ago

• Words to live by…

  
  ...Anything Indie — Authority: 119
  Words to live by people… If you ever have a doubt over whether you should purchase something mass produced from sweatshops or something full of handmade goodness from an artisan, read the pledge. I flat out refuse to personally wear jewelry that is mass produced. Why wear something that everyone and their ...
  5 days ago

• Discussing Everyday Justice 3

  
  onehandclapping — Authority: 460
  The recent contest to win a copy of Everyday Justice generated some fantastic comments and questions about justice issues. So over the next few days I will be addressing some of those in blog posts. I don’t assume to have THE answers to anything, but just want to share my perspective and hope you will join in ...
  5 days ago

• PSA: Carl Fillichio on “The Best Gig You Can Have”

  
  Understanding Government — Authority: 139
  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 ...
  6 days ago

• Sweatshops Alive and Well

  
  Wade Rathke: Chief Organizer Blog — Authority: 127
  New Orleans In the prevailing wisdom and the back pats that we like to sometimes hope are well earned and deserved, in speaking with students on university campuses about organizing chapters to support ACORN International’s organizing in various countries I have occasionally used cited the effectiveness of the ...
  2 weeks ago

• Electronics Industry has Difficulty Enforcing Labor Laws

  
  Labor is Not a Commodity — Authority: 416
  By Evelyn Holt, Intern, International Labor Rights Forum Do you know where your computer came from? Most likely not. Parts are manufactured and assembled all over the world, and labor protections are hard to identify and track.  ILRF has also done research and campaigning on the substances such as coltan that is ...
  2 weeks ago

• Jo Wood steps up sweatshops war

  
  Daisy Green — Authority: 138
  Jo makes her views known Television star and organic beauty expert, Jo Wood, today joined Britons who have posed for photographs to support the biggest-ever call for British government action to stop fashion retailers exploiting overseas workers. Read Daisy’s interview with Jo  She has boosted a drive for ...
  2 weeks ago

• Thoughts from Kenya: It is time for a workers bailout!

  
  Labor is Not a Commodity — Authority: 416
  By Steve O. Akoth, Labour Awareness and Resource Centre When reports appeared in the media two years ago detailing failure in mortgage repayments in the United States, the government of Kenya alongside many others in Africa, claimed that that was a US affair.  The treasury bureaucrats and politicians were quick to ...
  2 weeks ago

• Why companies must lead the responsibility parade

  
  Nigel Hollis — Authority: 116
  Welcome to the new world of branding, where people not only expect brands to taste great, prevent cavities, and remove ring around the collar, but also to benefit the planet and humanity at large. But seriously—in this post I will consider the negative implications faced by companies that act irresponsibly. I would ...
  3 weeks ago

• Funding Sweatshops Globally

  
  Johnito's Digest — Authority: 121
  by Stephen Lendman In July 2008, SweatFree Communities (SFC) released a report titled, " Subsidizing Sweatshops: How Our Tax Dollars Fund the Race to the Bottom, and What Cities and States Can Do " in which it studied 12 factories in nine countries that produce employee uniforms for nine major companies. ...
  3 weeks ago

• How Can We Be Frugal and Socially Conscious Consumers?

  
  frugal zeitgeist — Authority: 116
  We are frugal for many reasons but most of the people that I have met that consider themselves “Frugal” also have a deep love for environment and the world around them. Many of us frugalists grow some of our own food and keep over consumption low along with many other things that have a positive impact on the ...
  4 weeks ago

• Khalid Mahmood Speaks Out on Labor Unions in Pakistan

  
  Labor is Not a Commodity — Authority: 416
  By Evelyn Holt, Intern, International Labor Rights Forum   Khalid Mahmood, Director of the Labor Education Foundation in Pakistan , spoke yesterday at the Service Employees International Union in Washington, DC about the current condition of workers rights and organizing in Pakistan.  Pakistan produces many ...
  4 weeks ago

• Molly’sBlog 2009-10-13 19:26:00

  
  Anarchoblogs — Authority: 155
  AMERICAN LABOUR: THE HARVEST OF SHAME: The following item comes Mollys way via the United Students Against Sweatshops . It is originally from the Student/ Farmworker Alliance . ALALALALALALAL Take Action for Farmworker Justice- End the Harvest of Shame!: The Student/ Farmworker ...
  4 weeks ago

• Cambodian Labor Rights in Jeopardy

  
  Labor is Not a Commodity — Authority: 416
  Brett Eisenbrown, intern, International Labor Rights Forum On September 10th, Mr. Tola Moeun, of the Community Legal Education Center went before the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission to discuss Cambodian labor rights issues.  Upon reading his testimony, there are many points that deserve to be ...
  8 weeks ago

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