Latest Sweatshop Stories

PITTSBURGH, Oct. 1, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Leo W. Gerard, president of the United Steelworkers (USW) reacted today to a new global labor rights report that cites Republican Presidential Candidate Mitt Romney as having "knowingly invested in a brutal Chinese Dongguan sweatshop," while CEO for Bain Capital through the affiliated Brookside Fund for up to $23 million between 1998-2000. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20080131/DC12982LOGO) The labor rights report...

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo., Aug. 21, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Paradigm Shift, a Colorado-based non-profit, recently launched an online shop. The Paradigm Shift Shop sells Fair Trade South African crafts handmade by microentrepreneurs who have participated in Paradigm Shift's holistic entrepreneurship training program. Around the globe millions work in sweatshop-like conditions, earning barely enough to feed their families. Unfortunately, many consumers are unaware of the exploitation that...

Lee Rannals for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online Samsung will be looking into allegations made by China Labor Watch that one of its manufacturers employs underage workers at one of its factories. The company has promised to send inspectors in for a special investigation to determine whether or not the allegations are accurate. A Samsung team will be sent off to a supplier factory in Huizhou, China to see if HEG Electronics is employing underage workers. Two previous inspections...

NEW YORK and PITTSBURGH, June 20, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Another industry lost. As of 2008, phones are no longer made in the United States. Today the Institute for Global Labour and Human Rights is releasing an in-depth report, "VTech Sweatshop in China; AT&T, Motorola, Wal-Mart and others Endorse the China Model." From the Report: A Rare Inside Glimpse--China's Workers Speak Out: "VTech is a workshop of blood and tears." "If I stay any longer, I'm going to jump off...

WASHINGTON, April 9, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- A Bangladeshi labor rights activist and former apparel worker was tortured and murdered last week in Dhaka. His body was dumped outside of the capital city and was found by local police last Thursday. According to the police report, Aminul Islam's body bore signs of brutal torture. Aminul's family, who had been searching for him since he disappeared last Wednesday, identified him on Saturday from photos appearing in local newspapers....

NEW YORK and PITTSBURGH, Dec. 23, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Following is a statement by Charles Kernaghan, Director of the Institute for Global Labour and Human Rights, regarding allegations of sweatshop abuses in the production of Kim Kardashian's clothing and other product lines in China: China is not like the United States. In China there are no human rights, no religious freedom, no worker or women's rights, no freedom of speech and certainly no political freedoms. China...

NEW YORK, PITTSBURGH and SAN SALVADOR, Oct. 13, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Dallas Cowboys and Ohio State University and Wal-Mart are implicated in a sweatshop scandal, producing their licensed goods at an illegal sweatshop in El Salvador, where women are just paid pennies per garment and stripped of their rights. Today, the Institute for Global Labour and Human Rights is releasing an explosive 37-page report--including production and cost documents smuggled out of the Style Avenue...

NEW YORK and PITTSBURGH, March 3, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Today the Institute for Global Labour & Human Rights (formerly National Labor Committee) is releasing a new in-depth report "Dirty Parts/Where Lost Fingers Come Cheap: Ford in China." which documents worker rights violations--including workers maimed when factory management turned off critical safety equipment--at the Yuwei Plastics and Hardware Products company in Dongguan, China. According to workers, 80 percent of...

Producing for Whirlpool, GE, HP, IBM PITTSBURGH, June 29 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The National Labor Committee is releasing a 30-page report documenting the illegal and harsh sweatshop conditions at the Jabil Circuit factory in Guangzhou, China, where over 6,000 workers--many of them illegal temporary workers--produce hi-tech products for HP, IBM, Intel, Cisco and Jabil--all of whom are Board members of the Electronic Industry Citizenship Coalition. The new report includes worker...

MILFORD, Mass., April 30 /PRNewswire/ -- Organizations purchase an estimated $50 billion annually in custom merchandise made in sweatshops. This May Day (also known as International Workers' Day), Solidarity eXchange (http://solidarityexchange.com) offers activists a way to challenge this status quo. Solidarity eXchange (SX) is a sales organization engaging members in direct action in support of the sweatfree, labor, buy local, fair trade, and environmental movements. Members earn money by...