Event ends: November 7, 2009 – 4:00 pm
Georgetown University Law Center, Hotung Hall, Room 1000
Map: http://www.law.georgetown.edu/directions/ [1]
RSVP to summit@sweatfree.org [2] appreciated. FREE!
We live in a race-to-the bottom economy characterized by globalization, outsourcing, and increased use of temporary and contract workers. The people who make our clothes, just like other low-income workers, face tough times both in the U.S. and abroad. And yet, despite threats of firings and factory closure, empowered workers join together to stand up for their rights and organize to form unions. Come hear about the struggles of workers who make U.S. military apparel in Puerto Rico; organizing strategies of Chinese workers who are prohibited from forming independent unions; the campaign of Asian workers to raise their wages, across the continent, to living wages; and more inspiring examples of worker power and international solidarity!