Clean Clothes Campaign are urging consumers not to buy products from clothing manufacturers such as Nike, Wal-Mart, Guess, and The Gap. According to a member, Dan Wisons, “These are the worst offenders. They make billions of dollars a year at the hands of people whom they treat like dirt. (“Industry Leader” 3).” You too can join the campaign and take a step toward ending sweatshops. Another thing individuals can do is to write to companies in protest. You can send a letter or email the aforementioned companies and voice your opinion about their means of labor. In addition, college students are also pulling together to end sweatshops. The United Students Against Sweatshops is an international student movement that involves individual students from campuses all over America and Canada fighting for sweatshop free labor conditions and workers' rights. The USAS believe that university standards should be in line with its students. The students demand that clothing having the school’s logo should be made in places where decent working conditions exist. In an article describing their cause, entitled “About us,” the USAS also goes on to say, “Ultimately, we are using our power as students to affect the larger industry that thrives on sweatshops (1).” Furthermore, other organizations are also lending a hand to help the cause to end sweatshop conditions. One organization, UNITE, is helping workers form unions to get the fair labor conditions they deserve. Making their own union, UNITE already has over 500 members who are fighting for better wages, decent conditions and other rights. Other action that is being taken to combat the injustice, is at a government level. Last year Governor Gray Davis signed into law Assembly Bill 633. The purpose of this bill was to crack down on sweatshop abuses in California. This bill imposed a “wage guarantee” which provided worker...
