| AMERICAN SAMOA: Vietnamese Workers Have Nowhere to Turn by John Gittelsohn, Orange County Register January 28th, 2001 More than 250 Vietnamese garment workers are stranded in American Samoa, lacking money, jobs and fearful of punishment if they return home. |
| US: Activist Group Links Pentagon, Firms to Child Labor Washington Post December 22nd, 2000 The Defense Department and five companies, including Sharper Image Corp. and Kohl's Corp., sell goods produced at factories in Asia and Central America that exploit workers, a labor rights group claimed. |
| NICARAGUA: Pentagon Contracts Nicaraguan Sweatshops by Steven Greenhouse, The New York Times December 3rd, 2000 An arm of the Pentagon has come under fire for procuring large quantities of apparel from a Nicaraguan factory that labor rights groups say is a sweatshop and that the United States trade representative has voiced serious concerns about. |
| US: Amazon.com Fights Union Activity by Steven Greenhouse, New York Times November 29th, 2000 Amazon.com has come out swinging in its fight to stop a new unionization drive, telling employees that unions are a greedy, for-profit business and advising managers on ways to detect when a group of workers is trying to back a union. |
| US: Roundup of Student Activism Against Sweatshops by Keith Meatto, Mother Jones October 1st, 2000 This year's cause celebre was the campaign to end the use of sweatshop labor by the $2.5-billion collegiate apparel industry. Undergraduates nationwide demanded their colleges quit the Fair Labor Association (FLA) -- an industry-backed watchdog that opponents liken to a fox guarding the hen house -- and join the Worker Rights Consortium. Founded by students, academics, and labor unions last October, the WRC promises strict workplace oversight, free from industry influence. |
| US: Report Says Global Accounting Firm Overlooks Factory Abuses by Steven Greenhouse, The New York Times September 28th, 2000 In a rare inside look at the auditing firms that inspect overseas factories to see whether they are sweatshops, an M.I.T. professor contends that the world's largest factory-monitoring firm does a shoddy job and overlooks many safety and wage violations. |
| AUSTRALIA: U.S. Soccer Players Confront Nike Protestors Times of India September 12th, 2000 This was Sunday, the day before the start of the three-day World Economic Forum in Melbourne, the same type of meeting that sparked riots in Seattle last year. The two players just happened to pass one of the demonstrations at a park. |
| US: Ford/Firestone = Homicide? by Russell Mokhiber and Robert Weissman, Focus on Corporations September 12th, 2000 Matthew Hendricks is one of more than 150 deaths around the world linked to Firestone tread separations. The families and friends of those killed in these accidents want to know -- what did Ford and Firestone know about these tires and when did they know it? |
| CHINA: McDonald's Fires Underage Workers Associated Press September 4th, 2000 Scores of underage workers hired in a mainland China factory that makes toys for McDonald's were fired following recent media reports about the situation, a Hong Kong labor-monitoring group said Monday. |
| US: McDonald's Uses Sweatshop Associated Press August 27th, 2000 Snoopy, Winnie the Pooh and Hello Kitty toys sold with McDonald's meals in Hong Kong are made at a mainland Chinese sweatshop that illegally employs child laborers to package the toys, a newspaper reported Sunday. |
| NICARAGUA: US Retailers Contract with Sweatshops by Carrie Antlfinger, Associated Press August 22nd, 2000 Gonzalez was one of two workers invited Monday to recount conditions at two Nicaraguan factories that human rights, religious and labor groups claim supply Kohl's Department Stores with cheap garments. |
| INDONESIA: International Union Steps into Sony Dispute Jakarta Post July 25th, 2000 An international union has stepped into the dispute surrounding the dismissal of 928 workers from PT Sony Electronics Indonesia. |
| EU: Anti-Sweatshop Campaign Targets Adidas by Peter Dhondt, Inter Press Service June 9th, 2000 Anti-sweatshop pressure groups are protesting against sporting goods manufacturer, Adidas, being one of the major sponsors of Euro 2000, the European Football Championship that kicks off here Saturday. |
| US: Anti-Sweatshop Student Sit-Ins Continue UNITE Stop Sweatshop News March 9th, 2000 As students celebrated anti-sweatshop victories at Wisconsin, Indiana, and other schools, sit-ins began at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore and Macalester College in Minneapolis. |
| US: Chicago Sweatshop Plan May Be Model by Martha Irvine, Associated Press February 19th, 2000 They sound like stories from another time. But a survey of the working poor in Chicago and surrounding suburbs has found otherwise. More than a third of the 800 workers questioned many of them immigrants described conditions in factories, restaurants and other workplaces that the federal government would deem ''sweatshops.'' |
| US: Activists Resign from University Panel on Sweatshops by Sharif Durhams, Journal Sentinel February 2nd, 2000 Student activists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have split with university administrators on how to prevent abuse of workers in factories that make Badger-licensed clothing. The students say Chancellor David Ward is ignoring their concerns. |
| US: University President Now on Flip Side of Protests by James M. O'Neill, Philadelphia Inquirer February 1st, 2000 As a student at the University of Pennsylvania and Columbia University in the 1960s, Judith Rodin was caught up in the social activism of the era. Last week, Penn's president found the tables turned as she negotiated with students who spent the entire week staging a sit-in in her outer office. |
| USA: Prisoners Who Speak Out Receive Punishment, Suit Says by Peter Blumberg, San Francisco Daily Journal August 23rd, 1999 Two inmates allege in a lawsuit to be filed today that state corrections officials violated their civil rights by punishing them for helping the media expose a prison labor program as an illegal sweatshop, according to their lawyers. |
| Nike Must Stop Exploiting My Students by Yvonne H.D. Noble, Los Angeles Times July 26th, 1997 Last fall, a reporter from The Times asked me about the relationship between Crenshaw High School boys' basketball program and Nike in terms of what the corporations donates to the basketball players. To my knowledge as the principal, I told him, the company gave each member of the boys' team a pair of tennis shoes, just as Karl Kani, a smaller African American ownedbusiness, gave shoes to members of the girls' team. |
| Double Standards: Notes for a Border Screenplay by Debbie Nathan, Texas Observer June 6th, 1997 The case had been settled only minutes ago, and now jurors for Mendoza v. Contico were seated in a room outfitted with movie theater chairs and plugs for devices like VCRs. They were in the ''Ceremonial Court'' in El Paso, where victorious lawyers often hold post-trial press conferences. |