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KTC: Ethical Fashion in China (VIDEO)

Crane.tv | Posted 04.20.2012

Read More: Fair Wear Foundation, Ktc, crane.tv, Fashion, Laos, School, China, Sweatshops, Video, Culture News
Crane.tv

There's not one person that hasn't heard a horror story involving workers in China being paid a pittance for hours of intense labor. We're all familiar with these tales, but what about the flip side?

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I Shop, Therefore I Am

Emma, The Emma Edition | Posted 04.12.2012

Read More: The-Emma-Edition, Urban Outfitters, Sweatshop Labor, Richard-Hayne, Glen Senk, Shopping, Sweatshops, Urban Outfitters Lawsuit, Teen News
Emma, The Emma Edition

Urban Outfitters is run by a Rick Santorum supporter, under whose leadership the company has produced items that are viewed by many as homophobic and racist. This is the underbelly of fast fashion.

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A Call To Protect All Children

Geeta Rao Gupta | Posted 04.05.2012

Read More: Haiti Earthquake, Children, Child Soldiers, Sex Trade, Kony 2012, Global Motherhood, Unicef, Children Refugees, Sweatshops, Home News
Geeta Rao Gupta

All of these children are in need of rescue -- all are children whose potential contributions to their society are being lost. All are a challenge to our consciences and to our capacity to do what we all instinctively want to do when we see a child in danger -- to save that child.

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Even With Daisey's Lies Peeled Away, Apple's Rotten Core Exposed

Michelle Chen | Posted 05.26.2012

Read More: Steve Jobs, Fair Trade, Computers, Manufacturing, Mike Daisey, Npr, Labor, Apple, Apple Ipad, Labor Rights, Foxconn, Consumers, Technology, This American Life, Electronics, Sweatshops, China, Apple Products, Technology News
Michelle Chen

If one fundamental truth has emerged from the scandal surrounding Daisey's dramatic fudging, it's that the lived reality of many Chinese workers is undoubtedly bleak -- no embellishment needed.

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Labor Campaign Calls on Olympic Brand Companies to Play Fair

Michelle Chen | Posted 05.21.2012

Read More: Britain, Athletes, United Kingdom, Olympics, England, London Olympics, Manufacturing, London, Globalization, Sports, Labor, Human Rights, Bangladesh, Ethics, Sweatshops, China, World News
Michelle Chen

The long-term effectiveness of this accord remains to be seen; the games are designed to maximize commercial profit and not long enough to bring a sea change in the global manufacturing system.

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Note to Gekko: Governance is Good

Rev. Seamus P. Finn, OMI | Posted 10.03.2011

Read More: Transparency, News Corp, Wall Street, Honesty, Murdochs, Shareholder Value, Integrity, Sweatshops, Ethical-Investing, Esg, Religion News
Rev. Seamus P. Finn, OMI

Good governance that includes a system of checks and balances in corporations can assure that the rights and responsibilities of all are respected. Faith-based investors can hardly ignore these priorities and opportunities.

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Janell Ross

Corporate Silence: Brands Profess Ignorance Of Alleged Worker Abuses at Overseas Factories

HuffingtonPost.com | Janell Ross | Posted 09.20.2011

Read More: Apparel Factories, Free Trade Agreements, Multinational Corporations, Labor, Human Rights, Labor Rights, Factories, Fashion/Apparel, Human Rights Abuses, Sweatshops, Business News

A month after a prominent human rights group accused major American brands of purchasing clothing from a factory in Jordan that systematically abuses ...

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Nike Faces New Worker Abuse Claims In Indonesia

Posted 09.12.2011

Read More: Factory, Baruch College, Indonesia, Nike, Jakarts, Jobs, Worker Conditions, Warehouse, Converse, Muslim, Standards and Practices, PT Amara Factory, Pou Chen, Sweatshops, Business News

SUKABUMI, Indonesia (AP) -- Workers making Converse sneakers in Indonesia say supervisors throw shoes at them, slap them in the face and call them dog...

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In Asia, Raising the Wage Floor Toward Global Labor Justice

Michelle Chen | Posted 07.23.2011

Read More: Outsourcing, Women, India, Minimum Wage, Jobless Rate, Unemployment, Global Economy, Indonesia, Bangladesh, Jobs, Manufacturing, Climate Change, Asia, Sweatshops, China, World News
Michelle Chen

While multinationals have prowled the planet to exploit the cheapest workforces they can find, advocates call for a common living wage standard to ensure workers from Shenzhen to Sri Lanka aren't working themselves deeper into poverty.

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A Void: Where's the Triangle Fire Memorial?

Cari Shane | Posted 06.02.2011

Read More: Labor Laws, Immigrants, Garment Worker, Triangle Fire, Judith Weller, Sweatshops, Statues, New York News
Cari Shane

There is no statue to commemorate the senseless deaths of 120 women and 26 men in New York City's famous and tragic fire at the Triangle Shirtwaist Fi...

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Sometimes It Takes a Fire to Wake Us Up

Matt Ryan | Posted 05.30.2011

Read More: Walmart, Walmart Nyc, Triangle Fire, Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire, Economy, Brooklyn, Retail, Walmart Unions, Labor Unions, New York City, New York, Wal-Mart, Retail News, Politics, Retail Industry, Labor, Nyc, Retail Sales, Triangle Factory Fire, New York City Council, Unions, Sweatshops, Workers Rights, New York News
Matt Ryan

In many parts of the world, it may be 2011, but at Walmart, it's still 1911. The fire that consumed those 146 girls' lives is in this respect still burning -- only now it has become a global fire.

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The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory: Victory Among a Century's Tears

Richard Z. Chesnoff | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: NY Disasters, Henry-Street-Settlement, Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire, Sweatshops, 9/11 Anniversary, New York News
Richard Z. Chesnoff

With the exception of September 11, 2001, no disaster has ever traumatized New York more than the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire of March 25, 1911 -- 100 years ago this weekend.

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On Women's Day, GOP Attacks Women

Leo W. Gerard | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Collective Bargaining, Women of Steel, Wisconsin, Sweatshop, International Women?S Day, Grupo Mexico, Pasta De Conchos, Usw, International Ladies? Garment Workers? Union, Womens? Trade Union League, United Steelworkers, Unions, Firestone, Sweatshops, Triangle Shirtwaist Factory, International Women's Day, Business News
Leo W. Gerard

The GOP is intent on setting women back. If Republican governors across the country succeed in confiscating collective bargaining rights from public sector workers, women will be hurt most.

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Gadget Factories Charge Up China's Labor Activism

Michelle Chen | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Multinational Corporations, Labor, Apple Ipad, Apple, Foxconn, Free Trade, Globalization, Chinese, Technology, Unions, China, Electronics, Sweatshops, World News
Michelle Chen

The trajectory of China's breakneck economic growth over the past three decades is a case study in how globalization allows cutting-edge technology to exist alongside primitive labor conditions.

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Will ABC News' Made in America Series Avoid Their Boss, Disney?

Jeff Cohen | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: ABC News, Disney, Sweatshops, Made in America, Manufacturing, Made in China, Imports, Media News
Jeff Cohen

It's too easy to blame U.S. consumers for buying cheap stuff from China or Bangladesh or Honduras. Will ABC News investigate the products sold by Disney?

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Any Job Is a Good Job? Think Again

Dan Viederman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Jobs, Working Conditions, Sweatshops, Poor Working Conditions, Sweat Shops, Business News
Dan Viederman

We must continue to hold companies accountable for the working conditions of people who sew, build and harvest for them at the bottom of their supply chains.

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Surfers Spread the Message of Responsible Shopping this Holiday Season

Heather Box | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Photography, Holiday Shopping, The Story of Stuff, Surfing, Kyle Thiermann, Patagonia, Annie Leonard, Sri Lanka, Sector 9, Travel, Young People, Christmas Shopping, Sweatshops, Daniel Russo, Impact News
Heather Box

Kyle Thiermann, a 20-year-old professional surfer from Santa Cruz California, stood in a clothing factory in Sri Lanka amongst the commotion of the sewing machines.

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The Earth-Buster Sale

Reverend Billy | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Market, Holidays, Children, Old Shops, War, Christmas, Farmer?S Markets, Obama, Peace, Buy Nothing Day, Reverend Billy and the Church of Stop Life After Shopping, Consumerism, Reverend Billy Talen, What Would Jesus Buy?, Free-Market, Revolution, Oil, Black Friday, Wall Street, Global Warming, Sweatshops, Impact News
Reverend Billy

Consumerism keeps this economy going, which is destroying life. This Christmas is selling everything.

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Poison Apple: iPhone Production Line Tied to Toxics in China

Michelle Chen | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Global Economy, Workers, Occupational Safety and Health Administration, E-Waste, Free Trade, Iphone, Labor, Apple, Workplace, Foxconn, Consumer Electronics Show, Organized Labor, Technology, Asia, Unions, Electronics, China, Sweatshops, Technology News
Michelle Chen

Anti-sweatshop activists have blasted Apple for ignoring exploitative, perhaps severely poisonous, working conditions at United Win Technology, a facility in Jiangsu Province apparently connected to Apple Computers.

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A Call to Arms: How We Must Take the Fight to Nike

Jim Keady | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Workers' Rights, Team Sweat, Indonesia, Nike, Wages, Sweatshops, Nike Workers Indonesia, Nike Workers, Nike Workers Honduras, Impact News
Jim Keady

Nike said that they would never pay out severance to workers in Honduras. But because of workers and consumers fighting together, Nike did pay out. We can make them meet workers' demands again.

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NIKE Runs Mountaintop Removal Football Ad, Disrespects Coal Miners

Jeff Biggers | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Wvu, Big Coal, Mountaintop Removal, Coal, Nike, Football, Sweatshops, Green News
Jeff Biggers

Nike's blatant advertisement for devastating strip-mining and mountaintop removal operation is one of the most offensive images in years.

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REI Co-Op Members Rise Up: My Agitprop Job App

Jeff Ballinger | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Workers, Low Wages, Nike, Patagonia, Fashion/Apparel, Csr, Outdoors, Sweatshops, Co-Ops, Workers Rights, Business News
Jeff Ballinger

This may seem like a cheeky way to get my job application read, but I'm telling you in all sincerity that there are things that your co-op can do that are game-changing.

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Nike Bows to Labor Activists

Sheila Shayon | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Corporate Social Responsibility, Retail, Activism, Nike, Cornell University, Sweatshops, Usas, Business News
Sheila Shayon

In a landmark, unprecedented win, students and human rights activists have forced the hand of retail giant Nike to pay $1.54 million to compensate 1,800 laid off workers in Honduras.

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Ask Workers in Cambodia and Bangladesh: Where Has Corporate Social Responsibility Been?

Jeff Ballinger | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bill Clinton, Workers, Corporate Globalization, International-Trade-Unions, Free Trade, Corporate Social Responsibility, Bangladesh, Reebok, Worker Rights, Nike, Neo-Liberalism, Fair Labor Association, Cambodia, Levi?S, Csr, Corporate Greed, Sweatshops, Mattel, World News
Jeff Ballinger

Since the earliest "code of conduct" requirements for supplier factories, labor rights have declined nearly to the vanishing point in production-for-export areas around the world.

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Baseball Justice

Peter Dreier | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Major League Baseball Players Association, Baseball, Robert Elias, William Rhoden, Immigration, Arizona, Costa Rica, Jackie Robinson, All Star Game, Curt Flood, Major League Baseball, Billy Bean, Rawlings, Jules Tygiel, Hall of Fame, Marvin Miller, Unions, Glenn Burke, Sweatshops, Gay Athletes, Turrialba, Sports News
Peter Dreier

Despite its noble history in transcending American racism, in recent years, Major League Baseball (MLB) has hardly distinguished itself as a paragon of American virtue or a pioneer for social justice or moral clarity.

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