No Sweat exists to fight against sweatshop exploitation. We organise solidarity for sweatshop workers from the UK to the four corners of the world. We stand for workers' self-organisation, international solidarity and for the right to organise in every workplace.
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Submitted by mick duncan on February 8, 2010 - 9:20am.
Help No Sweat press the high street giants to clean up their act by cutting the label out or even sending complete garments back to us to deliver "en masse".
We have thousands of postcards to attach your labels to. Download the front design from here or contact us and we can send you bundles of postcards to use.
Send your labels in to us at the address at the bottom of the website!
Submitted by mick duncan on November 6, 2009 - 6:01pm.
New leaflets from No Sweat!
One on the anti sweatshop campaign and another specifically focused on Primark, for general use on campaign stalls, for information... You can view and download it here.
Submitted by mick duncan on June 27, 2007 - 10:13am.
Over 190 million people are living as migrants around the world. Poverty, much of it caused by the economic policies of rich capitalist countries, is driving people to look for work abroad.
Download or order the pamphlet Solidarity with Migrant Workers. Facts, experiences, debate.
Submitted by nick holden on September 17, 2006 - 11:13am.
No Sweat is a campaign run by volunteers, we are not sponsored by anybody and we rely on the help of our supporters to keep fighting against sweatshop exploitation.
Please download and print off this Standing Order form, fill it in and send it to us at No Sweat, 5 Caledonian Road, London, N1 9DX.
Your help will really make a difference. Thank you.
Submitted by mick duncan on March 13, 2010 - 2:25pm.
Following a large demonstration against the suspension of the Sussex 6, hundreds of students have staged a snap occupation in defiance of management and the state, following the granting of a High Court injunction banning ‘occupational protest.’
Submitted by mick duncan on March 10, 2010 - 11:08am.
Bangladesh unions and international labour rights organisations are calling for immediate action from brands and the government of Bangladesh. A fatal factory fire killed at least 21 workers and injured a further 50.
Submitted by mick duncan on March 10, 2010 - 10:56am.
No Chains, a collaborative project undertaken by the two worker cooperatives “20th of December” (La Alameda) in Argentina and “Dignity Returns” in Thailand, seeks artists, designers, and activists to assist in creating images for a global “sweat-free” brand of t-shirts to be launched on 1st of May, 2010. Five submissions will be chosen by the joint vote of both cooperatives in mid-March 2010 and produced as t-shirts that will be marketed to ethical consumers and distributed among unions, NGOs, labor activists as part of an international campaign to promote non-exploitative garment production, international labor solidarity, and sustainable workers’ self-management.
Submitted by mick duncan on March 10, 2010 - 10:50am.
As the Olympic torch is handed on from this year's Winter Olympics in Vancouver to London, the Playfair 2012 coalition is launching a campaign for an ethical London Games.
Submitted by mick duncan on March 10, 2010 - 10:44am.
...but for women working in the garment industry and their families, good food is just that -- not a given, but something they have to think long and hard about buying. When you?re paid poverty wages malnutrition is a way of life -- along with unsafe housing, lack of clean drinking water and limited access to health care and education.
Submitted by mick duncan on March 10, 2010 - 10:40am.
Dundee University students braved the cold today to strip off as part of an international campaign against sweatshops.
The students were taking part in the Buy Right Campaign, which proclaims, “We’d rather go naked than wear sweatshop clothes.”
Domestic workers around the world are organizing to challenge the harsh, abusive, often slave-like conditions in which they work. They are organizing unions and support networks, and they are mobilizing in support of an international Convention that will finally recognize them as workers and establish their rights in international law.
Submitted by mick duncan on March 7, 2010 - 6:40pm.
From China Labour Bulletin
If you ask a factory worker or a waitress in Dongguan if they have had a pay raise recently, they will either stare at you blankly or just burst out laughing.
For all the hype in the Chinese and international media about 30 percent wage inflation and a "famine" (???) of more than one million labourers in the Pearl River Delta, the reality for migrant workers remains the same; low pay, long hours and no job security.
At least 21 workers have been killed in a fire at the Garib & Garib Sweater Factory in Gazipur, Bangladesh. A further 50 workers are suffering from burns or smoke inhalation. According to the company’s website, Garib & Garib Sweater Factory is manufacturing for H&M, Otto, 3Suisses International, Pimkie, TechTextile Russia, Provera and Mark’s Work Wearhouse, and has previously supplied Littlewoods, Lindex, JC Penney and Wal Mart.
Thousands of garment workers have recently held protests about pay and conitions in Rangoon, Burma.
"On 10th February hundreds of armed police were told to monitor closely a protest by some 2000 female factory workers in the capital Ragoon demanding a pay rise and better workplace conditions."
Workers at the BP plant at Tauramena, part of the Cusiana oil field in Casanare have been protesting since 22 January 2010 for improved wages. On 15 February the notorious ESMAD ‘anti-mutiny’ police attacked the workers’ picket line and the local community. Three workers are in hospital. They are members of the national Oil Workers Union USO that has only been able to organise in the plants in the last year.
Demonstrate: 4pm Friday 26 February, outside BP HQ, 1 St James Square, London SW1 (nearest tube Piccadilly Circus)
It's been a while since we had a party at Housmans, so we've got some friends together to put on a little acoustic show for your gratification and for No Sweat's benefit.
Come down, bring your own drink and donate generously to No Sweat. And have a damn good time doing it.
Submitted by mick duncan on February 12, 2010 - 9:04am.
Rain pours new misery on quake-struck Haiti
Jim Loney and Joseph Guyler Delva
PORT-AU-PRINCE
Thu Feb 11, 2010
PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) - Rain drenched quake survivors in the tent camps of the Haitian capital on Thursday, a warning of fresh misery to come for the 1 million homeless living in the street one month after the devastating earthquake.
From 17-26 March, the Human Rights Watch Film Festival returns to London for its 14th edition. This year’s compelling line-up of insightful documentary and fiction films bears witness to human rights violations and celebrates courageous individuals on both sides of the lens. Throughout the 10-day festival, many filmmakers and special guests and panellists will offer context and lively debate in post-screening sessions and panels.
We have occupied the top floor of Bramber House, University of Sussex, Brighton. There are 106 of us.
The decision to occupy has been taken after weeks of concerted campaigning during which the university management have repeatedly failed to take away the threat of compulsory redundancies and course cuts.
We recognise that an attack on education workers is an attack on us.
No Sweat will be leafleting at the Chinese New Year celebrations 2010 on Sunday 21 February in central London. Our theme is 'Support Chinese workers' right to organise' - in China and, in the case of migrant workers, in the UK as well. Come and join our stall and leafleting.
Meet up at Housman's at 10am to travel down to Trafalgar Square together, or meet at 11am at the Edith Cavell statue, opposite the National Portrait Gallery.
At a so-called disciplinary hearing Lancaster Cleaning Services have sacked UNITE shop-steward and leader of the Latin American Workers Association Alberto Durango.
Show your support:
MASS DEMONSTRATION
Reinstate Alberto – Hands off Our Union
Friday 12 February 1:00 PM,
Outside UBS Capital, 100 Liverpool Street, London EC2M 2RH
Submitted by mick duncan on February 7, 2010 - 5:30pm.
Port-au-Prince, 27th January 2010 - Statement by the coordinating committee of progressive organisations (see the list of the participating platforms and individual organizations at the foot of the text)
To all our partners
On January 12th 2010 an earthquake of unprecedented force struck our country with dramatic consequences for the people of many areas in the west and south east, and for the country as a whole. The tremor registered 7.3 on the Richter scale, and the irreparable losses it
Submitted by mick duncan on February 7, 2010 - 5:20pm.
The Haitian trade union Batay Ouvriye, active in last year’s struggle for a higher minimum wage, has made an appeal for solidarity in the wake of the devastating January 12th earthquake in Port-au-Prince. The UK anti-sweatshop campaign No Sweat is collecting money for this appeal: You can donate by clicking on the "Donate to No Sweat" button here: http://www.nosweat.org.uk/product
Please mark your donation "Haiti".
No Sweat will forward all funds received in this way to Batay Ouvriye via the New Jersey account listed below in late February. We have already raised a thousand pounds from ticket sales for our comedy fundraiser. You can help get that figure up and help shape a sweatshop free future for Haiti.
Submitted by mick duncan on February 7, 2010 - 5:17pm.
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — In a city still overwhelmed by rubble and desperate for food and money, a small miracle of commerce took place on Monday: a garment factory reopened.
But no sooner had the first sewing machines begun to clatter at the factory, DKDR Haiti, than the workers cleared the floor. The workers, almost all of them women, mistook the machines’ vibrations for an aftershock and scrambled for safety outside under the locust trees.
Submitted by mick duncan on February 7, 2010 - 5:14pm.
From China Labour Bulletin:
The New Year has already seen a number of announcements in the official Chinese media that seem, on the surface at least, to be good news for workers. Coal mine accidents are down, graduate employment is up, and the authorities in the central province of Hubei have launched a wide-ranging crackdown on forced labour. Of course, the reality behind these "good news" stories is not quite so laudable.
Submitted by mick duncan on January 27, 2010 - 11:32am.
From China Labour Bulletin:
In December 2009, a magazine article exposed the extent to which labour relations in China had deteriorated over the last year, with enterprises deliberately taking advantage of the government's leniency during the global financial crisis to exploit their workforce. The writer called on the government and trade unions to take concerted measures, including the introduction of collective bargaining, to alleviate the growing conflict between workers and management.
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