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End Wal-Mart Sweatshops!
Workers abroad who labor in Wal-Mart’s suppliers’ factories routinely experience:
• Forced Labor
• Minimum Wage Violations
• Maternity Leave Violations
• Overtime Pay Violations
• Health Care Violations
• Right to Form Independent Unions Denied
• Bathroom Breaks Violations
In order for Wal-Mart to improve conditions in its supplier factories it must first fundamentally alter its business practice of demanding a continuously lower price from supplier factories – a price which renders those factories unable to pay workers a living wage. Further, Wal-Mart must commit to supplying from those factories in which workers have democratic representation and the right to bargain collectively with their employer. Additionally, Wal-Mart must open its supply chain to independent monitoring so that independent, unannounced, factory assessments may take place.
» Email Wal-Mart telling it to change its policies!
Shop with a Conscience Consumer Guide
Look for something special? The 2007-08 Shop with a Conscience Consumer Guide is filled with excellent products made in good working conditions.
The Shop with a Conscience Consumer Guide is brought to you by SweatFree Communities, Sweatshop Watch, and International Labor Rights Forum.
We believe that one of the most important criteria for meaningful and dignified work is that workers themselves have an effective, collective voice in determining their wages and working conditions. Therefore all the products in this shopping guide are made by workers organized into democratic unions or worker-owned cooperatives.
All retailers and wholesalers listed below have undergone a rigorous application process to give us and you the confidence that their products truly meet our sweatfree criteria.
Don't Let Them Put Their Dirty Hanes on You
In April 2007, the management at the TOS Dominicana Factory in the Dominican Republic carried out a targeted mass firing of union members - part of an ongoing campaign to terrorize workers into abandoning their right to organize.
Despite these abuses, Hanesbrands has done nothing meaningful to correct the situation. Tell Hanes representatives to clean up their dirty Hanes at TOS Dominicana and respect workers' rights!