Tuesday, March 6th, 2007
Clean Clothes and Fair Food : NYC April 27-28th
A Conference to Promote Justice in Factories and Fields
Columbia Law School, New York City | April 27-29, 2007
Organized by SweatFree Communities & the Alliance for Fair Food
Building off the success of SweatFree Communities’ past three annual conferences and the growing power of the Alliance for Fair Food, SweatFree Communities and the Alliance for Fair Food have teamed up to hold a joint conference to advance worker justice in factories and fields.
The conference will provide information and skills to support communities, groups, and individuals in creating more socially responsible economic models that ensure the human rights of workers. Through strategies such as worker organizing, selective government procurement, corporate pressure, consumer education, and solidarity relationships, it is possible to contribute toward a more just economy at local and national levels, impacting not only workers in this country but also communities and workers around the world.
The human rights crisis in Florida’s fields is the same as the crisis in garment sweatshops worldwide: grueling, dangerous work with no right to overtime pay, no health insurance, no sick leave, no paid vacation or pension, and no right to organize in order to improve these conditions.
It does not have to be this way either in the fields or in the factories.