San Francisco Victory

  • Read a Summary of the Sweatfree Ordinance

  • Read the Complete Sweatfree Ordinance and Fair Trade and Organic Resolutions

  • November, 2005: Mayor Newsom is calling on other mayors across the country to join a nationwide sweatfree city consortium. "By consolidating our purchasing power and coordinating enforcement, our cities can better assure that anti-sweatshop policies achieve their intent," Newsom writes. "Along those lines our city is interested in organizing a consortium of public jurisdictions to advance sweatfree policies." Read Newsom's letter here.

  • See a List of the Sweatfree Bay Area Coalition's Partners and Join!

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    SF PLEDGES TO USE PURCHASING POWER TO PRODUCE SWEATSHOP REFORM
    San Francisco supervisors unanimously approved a new law on September 13 that requires city contractors to guarantee in writing that the uniforms, computers and other goods they supply were not made by workers exploited in "sweatshops."

    Read an SF Examiner article about an earlier vote on August 16

    Read a Global Exchange press release about the August 16 vote.

    Sweating slave labor
    As state agents conduct sweeping raids, San Francisco is poised to pass the country's strongest anti-sweatshop law
     by Camille Tiaira, San Francisco Bay Guardian

    SF Embraces Freedom of Association Language After Last-Minute Negotiations
    "San Francisco Standard" Now Strongest in Nation
    by Tom Hayden, former State Senator and New College instructor

    Mayor Newsom and Supervisor Ammiano Take Lead on SF Sweatfree Ordinance
    9 of 11 Supervisors Co-sponsor
    by Tom Hayden

    The Reverend Billy Preaches the Good News of the SF Sweatfree Ordinance!
    by Andy Blue