Anti-Sweatshop Initiative
No Sweat Apparel | 08.07.2002 13:44
We're trying to gauge the level of support we can expect from the progressive community for our anti-sweatshop initiative before we begin production.
Getting serious about fighting sweatshops must include OFFERING SERIOUS
ALTERNATIVES. Please take a few seconds to look at ours.
http://nosweatapparel.com
We're trying to gauge the level of support we can expect from the progressive community for our anti-sweatshop initiative before we begin production. What we're doing is pretty simple--providing a living wage to union producers here and in the developing world, a competitive product for consumers and a reasonable return for investors. We can do all that if we don't have to advertise. That's the big if. Will the community spread the word about a for-profit venture? On the plus side, we don't compete with the existing non-profits for scarce resources and attention!
Thanks for your time,
Jeff Ballinger
Director, Press for Change
Adam Neiman
Bienestar International
Manufacturers of No Sweat Apparel
Always do the right thing. It'll gratify some and astonish the rest.
Mark Twain
http://NoSweatApparel.com
ALTERNATIVES. Please take a few seconds to look at ours.
http://nosweatapparel.com We're trying to gauge the level of support we can expect from the progressive community for our anti-sweatshop initiative before we begin production. What we're doing is pretty simple--providing a living wage to union producers here and in the developing world, a competitive product for consumers and a reasonable return for investors. We can do all that if we don't have to advertise. That's the big if. Will the community spread the word about a for-profit venture? On the plus side, we don't compete with the existing non-profits for scarce resources and attention!
Thanks for your time,
Jeff Ballinger
Director, Press for Change
Adam Neiman
Bienestar International
Manufacturers of No Sweat Apparel
Always do the right thing. It'll gratify some and astonish the rest.
Mark Twain
http://NoSweatApparel.com
No Sweat Apparel
Homepage:
http://nosweatapparel.com
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more power to you
08.07.2002 19:38
Emma - St Andrews
Ethical Threads
09.07.2002 19:22
The organisation is known as "Ethical Threads" (officially: The Ethical Clothing Company Limited) and is run/backed up by amongst others Battersea and Wandsworth Trades Union Council (in London), the GMB union, and Billy Bragg.
As it says on their website:
"Ethical Threads is a brand of clothing and merchandise sourced from workplaces which meet international conventions on workers' rights and which are verified by free trade unions.
"By buying our products you are helping to stamp out sweatshops, explotation and child labour in the clothing industry.
"A percentage of the price you pay will help finance trade union and fair trade campaigns around the world."
For more details see
No Sweat, the UK campaign against sweatshops is also an active supporter of the campaign - indeed our own campaign T shirts (only £10) are from a women's cooperative in Nicaragua (I think..they're ethical in any case) - and they are available by post from us or directly from our website at
Hope this is of use/interest
Matt
matt heaney
e-mail:
heaney@zedat.fu-berlin.de
Homepage:
http://www.nosweat.org.uk