Anti-Sweatshop Legislation

Join the USW’s Fight for Anti-Sweatshop Legislation

For much too long, our trade agreements have incorporated all types of corporate protections, while ignoring the lives of human beings within our global economy. As a result, worker oppression and abuse is rampant around the globe:

In Jordan, recent reports exposed slave labor conditions among imported workers making products destined for the U.S. market. If workers spoke out against their lack of pay or 18-hour days, they were beaten. Because passports were seized, workers had no escape from their factory compound.

Call your U.S. Representative and Senators and urge them to co-sponsor H.R. 1992 and S. 367, the Anti-Sweatshop Bill.