Berkeley is considering an ordinance that would prohibit the city from purchasing uniforms and other garments produced in sweatshop conditions.

If the ordinance is passed by the Berkeley City Council on April 21, the city will require clothing vendors to disclose the sources of their goods and guarantee the items they sell to the city were produced in humane workplaces, said Diana Bohn, a member of the Peace and Justice Commission who helped write the ordinance.

Brussels, 6 April 2009 (ITUC OnLine): The ITUC has strongly condemned the situation at the opencast mine in La Loma, operated by Drummond Company, Inc. for the last 13 years. The lack of respect for workers' lives and safety cost Dagoberto Clavijo Barranco his life, in a fatal incident described by the human resources manager of the U.S. multinational as a "traffic accident".

The “sweatfree” movement is growing all across the country, as consumers decide they want to take a stand against corporations that support factories where workers are not allowed to unionize and are working in unsafe conditions. An impressive number of people across the country have come together to demand that their municipalities and state legislatures adopt a sweat-free purchasing policy.

Brussels, 27 March 2009: Murders of trade union leaders and members and violence against the trade union movement are continuing, despite the Colombian authorities' assertions to the contrary. Ramiro Cuadros Roballo, Walter Escobar Marín, José Alejandro Amado Castillo and Alexander Pinto Gómez were murdered this March, bringing to nine the number of trade unionists killed in 2009.