Statement in Support of United Students Against Sweatshops'
Sweat-Free Campus Campaign

It is now more than five years since colleges and universities
began adopting anti-sweatshop codes of conduct. Not enough has
changed in factories producing collegiate apparel. Apparel
workers around the world too often face abusive treatment,
excessive working hours, wages that are woefully inadequate to
meet basic needs, and the denial of universally acknowledged
associational rights when they organize for improvements.
Apparel brands put tremendous pressure on their supplier
factories to cut costs and these pressures make broad, deep and
sustainable improvements in wages and working conditions
effectively impossible. The gains we have seen at individual
factories have been too limited and too fragile.

In light of these conditions, we, the undersigned, strongly
support United Students Against Sweatshops' (USAS) new
sweat-free campus proposal. Under this proposal, campus logo
apparel would be produced in designated supplier factories where
workers are able to enforce their rights through union
representation and are paid a living wage. The goal of this
proposal is to supply these factories with steady orders from
university licensees at prices adequate to allow full respect
for workers' rights.

We realize this proposal challenges current practices, but we
believe it is fully achievable. The new sweat-free campus
proposal strengthens existing initiatives in order to bring us
closer to the day when university apparel is truly made under
dignified working conditions.

--Click here to add your name to the support statement, click
here:
http://www.studentsagainstsweatshops.org/campaigns/sfc_prof_signon.php
  --For more background information on the proposed Designated
Suppliers Program, click here:
http://www.studentsagainstsweatshops.org/campaigns/sweatfree_main.php

--To see the current list of faculty signatories, click here:
http://www.studentsagainstsweatshops.org/campaigns/sweatfree_allies.php

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