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ICCR Suggestions for
What you can do against sweatshops
(The corporate examiner, vol.25, n.9, 9/5/1997)
1. Write to U.S. corporations in the apparel industry and urge them to join the White House Apparel Industry Partnership. Contact ICCR for a list of companies, addresses and a sample letter. As a first step, you can urge Warnaco Group, which dropped out of the Apparel Industry Partnership, to re-join. Write to:3. For more information on anti-sweatshop activities, contact:
Global Corporate Accountability Program ICCR, Room 550 475 Riverside Drive New York, NY 10115 phone (212) 870-2928 fax (212) 870-2023 e-mail: david@iccr.org
Stop Sweatshops: A Partnership for Responsibility
¥ c/o National Consumers League 1701 K Street NW, Suite 1200 Washington, DC 20006, USA; phone +1-202-835-3323 fax +1-202-835-0747
¥ c/o UNITE 1710 Broadway New York, NY 10019, USA phone (212) 265-7000 ext. 821 fax (212) 265-9541 e-mail: gcough@uniteunion.org
4. Support the Stop Sweatshops Act of 1997, (H.R.23) in the House of Representatives, introduced by Congressman Bill Clay of Missouri and Congresswoman Nydia Velazquez of New York. The bill (S.626) was introduced in the Senate by Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts. The Act would amend the Fair Labor Standards Act to hold garment industry manufacturers liable for their contractors' labor law violations, including non-payment of wages and paying below the minimum wage. It also allows civil penalties as high as $15,000 for failure to keep required payroll records. Ask your Congressional representatives to co-sponsor the Stop Sweatshops Act of 1997.
Contact your Congressperson at: U.S. House of Representatives Washington, DC 20515 Congressional Switchboard: phone (202) 224-3121
Contact your Senator at: U.S. Senate Washington, DC 20510 Congressional Switchboard: phone (202) 224-3121
5. Order - In Whose Interest?: Purchasing Power and Development in Haiti, Ruth Rosenbaum's purchasing power index study, January 1996. Contact:
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