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Article

28 Jul 2005

Author:
Mischa Gaus, In These Times [USA]

New Fair Trade Model Needed

Sweeping changes in the export of textiles have forced a difficult reappraisal among U.S. sweatshop monitors: How best to help workers in a relentless industry?...The [recent] wrenching changes in the apparel industry vex groups like the [Worker Rights] Consortium, which has spent four years focusing on individual factories to help garment workers build independent unions, obtain health benefits, and curb blacklisting, discrimination and physical violence against workers who join unions or attempt to organize them. [refers to Just Garments]