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WRC: Worker Rights Consortium; an independent monitoring agency charged with investigating factory conditions in collegiate apparel producing facilities
DSP: Designated Suppliers Program; codes of conduct that include a list of rights thatmust be respected in the factories where these goods are produced, things like the right to a decent wage, a workplace free from sexual harassment, protection against forced overtime, the right to form a union, etc.
USAS: United Students Against Sweatshops; an international student movement of campuses and individual students fighting for sweatshop free labor conditions and workers' rights
Sweatshop: A factory where workers face abusive treatment, excessive working hours, dangerous conditions, and wages that are inadequate to meet basic needs. When workers try to unionize to make demands, they are subject to illegal firings, harassment and/or closure of their factories.
Fair Trade: Fair trade is an organized social movement which promotes standards for international labor, environmentalism, and social policy in areas related to production of FairTrade labeled and unlabeled goods. The movement focuses in particular on exports from developing countries to industrialized countries
Students making Trade Fair is currently working with United Students Against Sweatshops in a campaign to make UF apparel sweatshop free by affiliating with the Workers Rights Consortium and the Designated Suppliers Program. This affiliation mandates that the clothes bearing the UF logo be manufactured under fair and ethical conditions.
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What is Sweatshop Free Apparel?
- UF Sweat-Shop Free
- Gaiensville, FL, United States
- Students Making Trade Fair is currently working with United Students Against Sweatshops on a campaign to get the University of Florida affiliated with the Workers Rights Consortium and the Designated Suppliers Program, which mandate that the clothes bearing UF's collegiate logos be manufactured under fair and ethical conditions. Through the Worker Rights Consortium (an independent monitoring agency charged with investigating factory conditions in collegiate apparel producing facilities), we will be able to exert continuous pressure on administrations and corporations, resulting in significant victories supporting those who are fighting for fair working conditions around the world. This campaign will require the brands producing UF goods to source from factories that either have democratic unions, or have made a concrete commitment to ensuring neutrality in the face of organizing drives, and pay a living wage. In addition, it will require that these brands pay enough for their goods that it is actually possible for workers to bargain for living wages and humane working conditions.
Why Is This a Fair Trade Issue?
Students Making Fair Trade at UF is concerned with labor, environmental, and social issues. One focus of the group has been to make Fair Trade coffee available on campus as well as raise awareness about Fair Trade.
The anti-sweatshop campaign addresses labor issues for apparel made for the University of Florida. Because apparel made in sweatshops is made under unfair working conditions, Student Making Trade Fair has made ensuring that UF apparel is made sweatshop-free a priority for the Fall 2007 semester.
The anti-sweatshop campaign addresses labor issues for apparel made for the University of Florida. Because apparel made in sweatshops is made under unfair working conditions, Student Making Trade Fair has made ensuring that UF apparel is made sweatshop-free a priority for the Fall 2007 semester.
Some Quick Definitions:
WRC: Worker Rights Consortium; an independent monitoring agency charged with investigating factory conditions in collegiate apparel producing facilities
DSP: Designated Suppliers Program; codes of conduct that include a list of rights thatmust be respected in the factories where these goods are produced, things like the right to a decent wage, a workplace free from sexual harassment, protection against forced overtime, the right to form a union, etc.
USAS: United Students Against Sweatshops; an international student movement of campuses and individual students fighting for sweatshop free labor conditions and workers' rights
Sweatshop: A factory where workers face abusive treatment, excessive working hours, dangerous conditions, and wages that are inadequate to meet basic needs. When workers try to unionize to make demands, they are subject to illegal firings, harassment and/or closure of their factories.
Fair Trade: Fair trade is an organized social movement which promotes standards for international labor, environmentalism, and social policy in areas related to production of FairTrade labeled and unlabeled goods. The movement focuses in particular on exports from developing countries to industrialized countries
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E-mail Sarah Bryant at selador@ufl.edu
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