Executive Council Statement
New Tools to Fight Sweatshop Abuses
… uneasy about the direction of the global economy, with the vast majority deeply concerned about corporate America’s rush to outsource good-paying jobs. It is also becoming increasingly clear that our domestic economy is heading in the wrong … these abuses are not limited to Jordan. Around the world, hundreds of thousands of workers are illegally trafficked to work in sweatshops, making products for export to the U.S. Many of these workers have their passports confiscated and are … months without a paycheck. These workers are too often denied their basic human rights at the workplace, especially the right to organize and bargain collectively, even while they make products for some of the largest and richest corporations in …