City's Policy on Sweatshops Called Failure By Controller
Printer-friendly version Date of publication: July 14, 2007
Source: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Author: Rich Lord
City of Pittsburgh rules designed to prevent the purchase of goods made in sweatshops aren't effective, acting Controller Tony Pokora said yesterday.
He released a report urging the city to follow the lead of other governments that demand to know where goods they buy are made and what the workers are paid.
"It has no teeth to it whatsoever," he said of the city's ordinance, passed in 1997 and often criticized by anti-sweatshop crusaders as inadequate...
