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Date of publication: September 5, 2007

Source: Willamette Week

Author: Corey Pein

Portland taxpayers soon could be funding propaganda and pickets in places like Madison, Wis., and fueling the national campaign that brought anti-sweatshop demonstrators to Portland City Hall in February. A "SweatFree" ordinance proposed by local pro-labor activists was approved by city commissioners last Wednesday, Aug. 29.

That measure is intended to prevent the city government from buying uniforms made in factories that pay substandard wages, use forced labor or expose workers to dangerous conditions...

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