Sweatfree Procurement Teleconferences
SweatFree Communities hosts (roughly) monthly teleconferences for purchasing officials on best practices in sweatshop-free government procurement. To receive invitations to these conversations, please contact Bjorn Claeson at bjorn(at)sweatfree(dot)org or 207-262-7277.
Meeting minutes
Minutes of the meetings are public and available in PDF (Adobe Acrobat) format:
October 29, 2009: The Swedish experience in sweatfree procurement - Mathias Sylwan, Chief Legal Officer for the Swedish Association of Local Authorities and Regions
August 27, 2009: Sweatfree Purchasing Consortium - Bjorn Claeson, SweatFree Communities
June 25, 2009: San Francisco's system for evaluating bidders' compliance with labor standards - Galen Leung, Manager of Central Buying Division, San Francisco
May 28, 2009: U.S. procurement and decent work - Prof. Robert Stumberg, Georgetown Law School
April 30, 2009: Behind the scenes of Subsidizing Sweatshops II - Lynn DeWeese-Parkinson, Worker Information Center, Tijuana, Mexico, and Reynaldo Corporan, Federation of Trade Zone Workers, Dominican Republic
March 26, 2009: Best practices in university sweatfree licensing and lessons for government procurement - Jim Wilkerson, Duke University
February 26, 2009: Best practices for factory disclosure - Jeremy Blasi, Worker Rights Consortium
January 29, 2009: Human rights in garment producing countries - Trina Tocco, International Labor Rights Forum
October 23, 2008: Latest developments in sweatfree procurement: new policies, multi-state RFP for independent monitoring, vendor-fee rule draft - Jeff Baer, City of Portland, Oregon, and Bjorn Claeson, SweatFree Communities
September 25, 2008: Better Work: A case study in building sustainable labour standards compliance in supply chains - Ros Harvey, Global Programme Manager of the Better Work programme
July 24, 2008: Cooperative
contract for independent factory monitor and other sweatfree developments - Betty Lamoreau, Director, Maine Division of Purchases
June 26, 2008: How
much sweatfree purchasing costs - Joseph Bozich, CEO of Knights Apparel
May 22, 2008 : Cooperative sweatfree purchasing - Paul Stembler, Western States Contracting Alliance
April 24, 2008: Lessons learned from the first official
investigation of a factory producing for
