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Help us make Oregon Sweatfree!
While sweatshops are the norm in the garment industry, working together we can support worker organizing for improved conditions. This is a celebration to demonstrate Oregon's commitment to ethical purchasing and to stand with elected leaders and government agencies that support workers' rights.We are asking you to:
- Support launching of the Oregon Sweatfree Campaign for labor and human rights in state contracts
- Ask OR join other states across the country in adopting a sweatfree purchasing policy
Campaign Goals
In 2007 Portland City Hall unanimously passing a landmark resolution that set in motion a process to create a City of Portland Sweatshop-Free Procurement Policy for uniforms and clothing purchases. From this success evolved the Oregon Sweatfree Campaign.Our mission is to educate, mobilize, and empower Oregonians to use their collective consumer power to resist the local effects of sweatshops and ensure their tax dollars are not being used to support sweatshop labor conditions.
We are asking Oregon to collaborate with other states across the nation to form the State and Local Government Sweatfree Consortium, which will pool resources for factory monitoring and coordinate enforcement of sweatfree purchasing policies.
Acting as an ethical consumer, the state of Oregon has the power to support fair and decent working conditions by adopting a sweatfree procurement policy.
Resources
Campaign FAQs
Sweatfree NW Campaign Endorsers List (partial list)
Alliance for Democracy - PortlandCenter for Intercultural Organizing
CWA-Local 7901
Enlace
Eugene-Springfield Solidarity Network/JwJ
Foundation Garments
Global Exchange
Graphic Communications Conference/International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Local 767M
ILWU-Local 5
ILWU Oregon Area District Council
Jubilee Oregon
Metanoia Peace Community United Methodist Church
National Association of Letter Carriers, Branch 82
Oregon Fair Trade Campaign
Oregon State Fire Fighters Council
Pacific Green Party
Portland Jobs with Justice
Portland Peaceful Response Coalition
PSU-Students for Unity
SweatFree Communities
VOZ
Witness for Peace Northwest
For more information or to get involved contact sweatfree@globalexchange.org or call (503)236-7916