Students Against Sweatshops
Wesleyan Students Against Sweatshops
In growing numbers of colleges and universities across the country, students are working to insure that their universities' apparel is not produced in sweatshops.
Our goal is to guarantee decent working conditions and wages for the people who produce clothing bearing Wesleyan's name.
Wesleyan Students Against Sweatshops, with input from students across the country and human rights groups from Canada, the US and Latin America, has developed a code whose active enforcement will insure a humane work environment.
We support the standards established in the code, including
- A living wage, so that the workers who make Wesleyan clothing can meet their basic needs
- Full disclosure of the addresses of the factories that make Wesleyan clothing, so that conditions won't be hidden behind a veil of secrecy
- Respect for women's rights in the workplace
- An end to abusive use of child labor
- Workers' right to organize
- Monitoring that insures a decent, safe and healthy work environment, including clean drinking water, clean air and respect for the environment
SAS is working to create an ethical purchasing code for Wesleyan University.
Read about Student Sit-ins Against Sweatshops
Read about '90's style activism against sweatshops