SweatFree Communities Campaign

The SweatFree Communities Campaign is an initiative of the Campaign for Labor Rights with other national and local anti-sweatshop groups to promote local sweatfree purchasing campaigns and to link them with efforts against local and global sweatshops. SweatFree Communities buy sweatfree and are sweatfree.

• Introduction
• Who We Are
• What We Do
• Building SweatFree Communities (additional background)

Visit SweatFree Communities' Website!

Get Involved

If you would like to become involved in this effort, or to find out more information, contact the Campaign for Labor Rights: clr@clrlabor.org, 202-544-9355.

News

• San Francisco Sweatfree Ordinance Passes UNANIMOUSLY! (August 16, 2005)
• San Francisco Campaign Moving Forward (June 27, 2005)
• Second National SweatFree Communities Conference
  Denver, Colorado -- May 6-8, 2005
• Network Promotes "Sweat-Free" Clothing This Holiday Season
  This holiday season, several anti-sweatshop organizations and sweat-free producers are launching a new strategy and a new web site -- to connect consumers who want to be part of the fight against sweatshops with workers who either own the factories in which they work (worker-owned cooperatives) or have organized themselves into democratic unions. (December 6, 2004)
• Los Angeles Passes "No-Sweat" Ordinance 13-0!
  Los Angeles City Council Passes Anti-Sweatshop Ordinance, Including $100,000 for Enforcement. It's the Toughest Anti-Sweatshop Law in U.S. (November 14, 2004)
• Activists to Wear "Clean Clothes or Nothing" in First-Ever National "Sweatfree" Conference!
  With the loss of US manufacturing jobs and trade issues taking center stage in the presidential candidate debate, anti-sweatshop activists across the country are pushing through a wave of historic reforms aimed at using tax dollars to promote fair trade and anti-sweatshop alternatives. Albany, NY will host many of the sweatfree movement's leaders when an array of anti-sweatshop activists arrive here for the first national "SweatFree Communities Conference." (May 15, 2004)
• Good News on SweatFree Communities!
  L.A. School District Passes Historic Anti-Sweatshop Measure, No Sweat Sneaker Challenges Nike To Come Clean!, and Pennsylvania Governor Bans State Apparel or Laundry Contracts with Sweatshop Firms! (April 3, 2004)
• First-ever "SweatFree" Communities Conference
  On the heels of historic new "sweatfree" purchasing laws in the State of California and elsewhere, anti-sweatshop and fair trade activists will gather in a new national landmark, the first "Sweatfree Communities Conference," to be held May 14-16 in Albany, New York. (April 3, 2004)
• CLR and partners question integrity of "independent certification" by WRAP. This letter from the CLR and its partners to Worldwide Responsible Apparel Production (WRAP) questions the legitimacy of their "independent certification" and the structure of the WRAP system. (June 26, 2003)
• Los Angeles is the latest school board to take a stand against sweatshops (February 18, 2003)
• Minneapolis School Board Goes Sweat Free! (November 26, 2002)