Liana Foxvog, National Organizer, SweatFree Communities As the financial and employment crisis deepens, it is crucial that we respond by addressing the causal roots of the mess. Multinational corporations have undermined local economies with the help of lax government regulations and trade agreement...

By Shanika Yapa, ILRF intern "We should all be able to walk into a shop and feel that the clothes we buy have been produced without damaging the environment or using poor labor practices, and that we will be able to reuse and recycle them when we no longer want them. I'm delighted that so many fashi...

Tim Newman, Campaigns Assistant, International Labor Rights Forum We have written several blog posts here about Russell's violations of the right to union organizing in Honduras.  Because of its abuses in Honduras, Russell ended up on ILRF's list of corporations that violate freedom of association....

By Briana Connors, ILRF intern To many people, the term “sweatshop� refers to hidden factories in far away third world countries where workers have few rights and are underpaid. What many people don’t realize is that those types of factories also exist right here in the US, often closer to hom...

Filed under: Activism Who can be in favor of "sweatshops"? The word brings to mind images of hundreds of workers from a poor country hunched over sewing machines for fourteen hours a day in stifling heat and with no bathroom breaks. Any person who cares about human dignity must be opposed to sweatsh...

Back in the summer 2004, Adbusters had spent months telling the world that it would be selling sweatshop-free sneakers. Kalle Lasn and his crew of “culture jammers” had put forth a lot of attitude on their move, but hadn’t followed through with the production of an actual sneaker. ...

Seven months ago, I reviewed a number of online print-on-demand services — websites that allow you to put your designs on products and sell them for profit. Other reviews of these print-on-demand websites focused on the ease of use or stylishness of the products being printed upon, but I took ...

Filed under: Government/Legal, Japan, Plants/Manufacturing, Safety, Toyota, UAW/Unions, Celebrities, Carsumer Advocacy The top is a tough place to be. Just ask Toyota, which is now facing charges of worker right abuses, including the use of sweat shops and human trafficking. As we've reported before...

Although Democrats claim to represent progressives and progressive interests, they’ve got other ties as well. Consider Hillary Clinton, who has received multiple campaign contributions from the Tan family of the Northern Marianas Islands. The Tan family is well-known for running garment factories ...

Okay, so, apparently this party got to epicly hot shit levels directly after the culture of me left Happy Ending.  What the fuck?  Balls to that.  Big up to Sweatshop Labor for sure.  Come find us tonight at Supreme Trading in the 'burg. (mp3)    HEARTSREVOLUTION - C.Y....