Ban Sweat Shops and Unfair Labour: Move to Ethical Business
The No Sweat Shop Label and
Homeworkers Code of Practice:
Eliminating Sweatshop Conditions in Australia
"Homeworkers in Australia typically work 12 - 18 hour days, six or seven days a week, for about one third of the award rate of pay. It is not uncommon to find outworkers receiving $2.00 an hour and sometimes less."
Would you like this next to your bedroom? Odds are, if you live in a residential area controlled by the Liverpool, Fairfield, Bankstown, Penrith or South Sydney Councils, it will happen.
Taking the rap for fashion 'slaves'
Sacked Honduran sweatshop worker makes mogul face music
Gary Younge in New York
Thursday October 30, 2003
The Guardian