Coalition hopes to block the City of Portland doing business with sweatshops
Printer-friendly version Date of publication: August 9, 2007
Source: El Hispanic News
Author: Richard Jones, El Hispanic News Writers
Excerpt from article:
Portland, OR — If a coalition of 45 Portland unions, churches, and political parties can persuade the city's commissioners, Portland will no longer buy materials from businesses identified as sweatshops.
From the popular point of view, a sweatshop is a work place that uses some or all of the following practices: forced labor, child labor, and exposing workers to poisons or physical abuse.
"All [commissioners] have agreed on the concept," Deborah Schwartz said, noting, "Sam Adams’ office has taken the lead." Schwartz is coordinator of the Portland Sweatfree Campaign...
