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Campaign Updates

7/19: Big step forward for Sweatfree DC; Councilwoman Mary Cheh shows support >>

6/11: Sweatfree Purchasing Consortium is officially launched >>

6/9: Ithaca to develop a sweatfree policy >>

4/30: DC labor community takes over procurement reform hearing >>

4/13: Sweat Free Houston sets new record with 85 local campaign endorsers! >>

2/28: Sweat Free Houston hosts benefit show Saturday March 6 >>

2/15: SweatFree Wisconsin Campaign Victory! State of Wisconsin joins SweatFree Purchasing Consortium >>

2/10: Pittsfield, MA becomes 40th "sweatfree" city >>

2/3: Pittsfield, MA Ordinance and Rules Committee passes sweatfree policy >>

1/26: Milwaukee, WI police uniform contract finally awarded; the worker to protect the workers begins now >>

More updates >>

Recent News 

CRISIS IN BANGLADESH-- latest update 8/22 >>

8/16: Bangladesh Arrests 21 After Rallies | New York Times >>

8/5: Advocates call on government of Bangladesh to cease repression of workers | press release >>

7/19: Bangladesh, with low pay, moves in on China | New York Times >>

7/19: Factory defies sweatshop label, but can it thrive? | New York Times >>

7/11: Fair Trade, shared space in Olympia | The News Tribune >>

7/1: Seattle to begin using sweatfree uniform purchasing policy | press release >>

6/28: On the one-year anniversary of the coup, Honduran social movement announces general strike | press release >>

6/14: What do China's workers want? | New York Times >>

6/6: Foxconn to double China factory-worker salaries after suicides | Bloomberg >>

6/1: Ithaca considers sweatshop-free policy for uniforms | The Ithaca Journal >>

5/4: Sweatshops up for debate in gubernatorial candidates' forum | AP >>

4/8: Different anti-sweatshop strategy wins breakthrough | Human Rights for Workers blog >>

4/2: ASDA installs webcams in Bangladesh factories | AFP-Yahoo News >>

3/26: Multinationals and Anti-sweatshop Activism | American Economic Review >>

3/7: Fair trade labeling isn't cut-and-dried | The Sacramento Bee >>

3/1: Public Procurement with a Conscience | Policy Innovations >>

3/1: Twenty-one locked-in apparel workers die in another factory fire in Bangladesh | Labor is Not a Commodity blog >>

2/26: Obama aims to use federal contracts as a way to lift wages | The New York Times >>

2/26: Babes in Arms: Sheriff´s deputies buy gear from company targeted by sweatshop investigators | Inland Empire Weekly >>

Act Now

Urgent: Tell Walmart, Sears, JC Penney and others to call for justice in the garment sector in Bangladesh >>

Urgent: Urge the Prime Minister of Bangladesh to stop the harassment and detentions of labor leaders >>

Ask your governor to join the SweatFree Purchasing Consortium >>

Events

7th National SweatFree Summit, Olympia, WA, November 5-7, 2010 >>

Bring an exhibit of garment worker paintings to your community >>

Report from our spring speaking tour >>

Featured Resources

Shopping? Check out our Shop with a Conscience Guide, updated annually >> 

Just Purchasing? Practicing our faith at the market. A guide for Presbyterian camps, conference centers and congregations >>

Subsidizing Sweatshops II: How our tax dollars can foster worker rights and economic recovery rather than fuel race to the bottom >> 

Sweatshop Solutions? Economic ground zero in Bangladesh and Wal-Mart's responsibility >>

Made in L.A. video clip focusing on sweatshop problem launched on May Day. Watch online >>

More resources >>