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国际劳工权益基金会代表莅临劳动法诊所指导工作

Northwest University of Politics and Law - Labor Law Clinic Page
04/16/2009

2009年4月8日，国际劳工权益基金会代表Manfred Elfstrom先生莅临劳动法诊所进行了为期两天的指导工作，指导工作由汇报和座谈两部分组成。

汇报工作于上午九时在教学楼B座五楼劳动法诊所办公室举行。首先由诊所责任人谢德成教授向代表汇报劳动法诊所的基本概况：介绍诊所的内部结构和组织系统以及各部工作一年运行情况,肯定了诊所一年中的成绩和经验，也提出了诊所运行过程中的不足。

成立于2008年的劳动法诊所，是全国首家劳动法诊所。在我校经济法学院的大力支持下，具有全校最大规模的指导老师团队，其中包括博士、教授、副教授职称，律师资格的教师数人。与此同时，诊所会不定期的邀请法院、仲裁委以及社会知名学者讲学。迄今为止，已有近百位学员在诊所学习锻炼。谢德成教授介绍到诊所由培训部、案件代理部、办公室网络咨询部三部分组成，每学期34个学时，2个学分。诊所奉承“探究理念，创新方法，服务劳工，培养人才”的宗旨，通过案例研讨教学，劳工权益纠纷代理，劳工咨询等形式，实现服务劳工，培养人才的目的。诊所力求打破传统的教学方法，将现实中的案例引入到教学过程中，将劳动法理论渗透到实践中。

Rights organization praises Lion Apparel

Dayton Daily News
04/15/2009

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DAYTON — An organization fighting what it calls “sweatshops” is praising Dayton-based Lion Apparel for its response to complaints about conditions in a Honduras plant.

In “Subsidizing Sweatshops II,” a report embargoed until today, April 15, SweatFree Communities said its research partners last year fielded complaints from workers, including “below-minimum wages, forced overtime, lack of legally mandated social security payments and pregnancy testing.”

Group chides, lauds Ohio company on factory

The Associated Press
04/15/2009

CLEVELAND (AP) -- An anti-sweatshop group says an Ohio-based uniform company has improved conditions at its plant in Honduras, but there remains more to do.

The factory employs about 500 workers and makes uniforms for Dayton-based Lion Apparel and other companies.

SweatFree Communities said Wednesday that a workers-rights group reported in July that employees at the plant worked for below minimum wage, were forced to work overtime and were not enrolled in social security, and that female workers had to take pregnancy tests...

State Police Uniforms Being Made In Dominican Republic Sweatshop

Maine Public Broadcasting Network
04/15/2009

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Some of Maine's tax dollars are being spent on garments made in sweatshops.  That's among the findings of a study released today by the non-profit group SweatFree Communities. The report, Subsidizing Sweatshops 2, is the follow-up to a study released last summer into conditions at some of the factories where police and military uniforms are made.

Berkeley set to vote on sweatshop ordinance

San Francisco Chronicle
04/15/2009

Berkeley has built up a sweat trying to become sweatshop-free.

More than four years after the idea first surfaced, the City Council is set to vote Tuesday on an anti-sweatshop ordinance that has bounced around among three commissions, several City Hall departments and a host of community groups, as they've debated how to pay for and enforce the plan.

But the ordinance - which would prohibit the city from buying goods manufactured in sweatshops - could be delayed five more months or so if City Manager Phil Kamlarz has his way...

Warning on sweatshops issued in Maine

Bangor Daily News
04/15/2009

 

AUGUSTA, Maine --Anti-sweatshop activists turned out at the Maine State House as part of a national effort to warn about federal, state and local tax dollars being used to buy products made in sweatshops.

According to a new report released Wednesday by a group known as SweatFree Communities, more local and state governments are adopting policies to require government contractors to meet ethical standards...

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