no sweat coalition partners help make ottawa a no sweat city

No Sweat Coalition PartnersNo Sweat Coalition Partners

Help Make Ottawa a No Sweat CityHelp Make Ottawa a No Sweat City

Source: http://sweatshop.clc-ctc.ca/pdf/municipal_resolution_disclosure.pdf

To amend the Purchasing Policy of the City of Ottawa, in order to ensure that, when the City procures goods and services or license its

trademarks, the City does not contract with sweatshops.

MODEL MUNICIPAL RESOLUTION:FULL PUBLIC DISCLOSURE AND COMMITMENT TO A NO SWEAT POLICY

We Don’t Want Our City Logo on ThisWe Don’t Want Our City Logo on This


Uniforms We Are Proud To WearUniforms We Are Proud To Wear

Source: http://sweatshop.clc-ctc.ca/en/work1.html

Price Make-up of a $100 Sport ShoePrice Make-up of a $100 Sport Shoe

Source: http://www.nosweat.org.uk/download.php?op=viewdownload&cid=3

Pressure to PerformPressure to Perform

Source: http://www.cleanclothes.org/campaign/foto/exhibit.htm

Quota Signboard (Thailand)Quota Signboard (Thailand)


• High pressure to meet

production quotas

• Wages tied to unrealistic

targets – fines or firing as

punishment

• Need overtime to earn

basic wages

• Legal minimum wages

below requirements for

living

Garment Factory (Lesotho)Garment Factory (Lesotho)


• Delivery deadlines mean high levels of pressure

• Overtime hours are usually not paid at the legal rate

• Saying no to overtime often means getting fired

Sport Shoe Factory Worker (Thailand)Sport Shoe Factory Worker (Thailand)


• 70 to 98% of workers

in the garment sector

are women

• Their position in the

global garment

industry is impacted

by women’s standing

in their culture

Garment Worker (Indonesia)Garment Worker (Indonesia)

• Standing 12 or more

hours per day

• Seven days per week

• No protective gloves

• No protection against

inhaling fibres


73 million working children are less

than 10 years old

Every year, 22,000 children die in work-related

accidents

Facts on Child LabourFacts on Child Labour

8.4 million children are trapped in slavery, trafficking, debt bondage, prostitution, pornography and other illicit activities

Source: http://sweatshop.clc-ctc.ca/pdf/dec_2005_swa.pdf

Garment Factory Exterior (Lesotho) Garment Factory Exterior (Lesotho)


Worker CompoundWorker Compound


Worker Living QuartersWorker Living Quarters

Source: http://www.behindthelabel.org/photo.asp?index=44

Many Indonesian factory workers

live in huts such as these ones,

often housing entire families in

these small living quarters.

Garment Factory (Romania)Garment Factory (Romania)


• The garment industry is highly mobile

• If workers begin to demand rights, operations can

simply move elsewhere, for example from Indonesia

to Eastern Europe

Anti-Union EnforcementAnti-Union Enforcement


Often union members are kidnapped and there have

been cases where they have never been found. People

assume that they have been killed. Workers are

intimidated and afraid.

Anti-Union EnforcementAnti-Union Enforcement


The factories tell workers that if they join a union they

will lose their jobs. They are told that they will be

responsible of the factory closes.


Sweatshop Sweatshop Abuses Abuses Flourish Flourish When When Worker Worker Conditions Conditions Are HiddenAre Hidden

Source: http://sweatshop.clc-ctc.ca/pdf/Brochure%20CLC%20ang%20WEB.pdf

Where is the Nation’s Capital?Where is the Nation’s Capital?

Canadian Public Institutions with a No Sweat PolicyUniversity of Alberta, AB

University of British

Columbia, BC

Dalhousie University, NS

University of Guelph, ON

Laurentian University, ON

McMaster University, ON

Memorial University, NF

University of Toronto, ON

Trent University, ON

University of Waterloo, ON

University of Western

Ontario, ON

Queen’s University, ON

Need sourceMunicipalities with a No Sweat PolicyBathurst, NB

Port Hawkesbury, NS

Calgary, AB

Duncan, BC

Ladysmith, BC

City of Nanaimo, BC

Regional District of

Nanaimo, BC

North Cowichan, BC

Saskatoon, SK

St. Thomas, ON

Toronto, ON

Vancouver, BC

Windsor, ON

School Boards with a No Sweat Policy

Eastern Ontario (Catholic), ON

Hamilton Wentworth (Catholic), ON

Huron-Superior (Catholic), ON

Waterloo Region (Public), ON

York (Catholic), ON

Algonquin and Lakeshore (Catholic), ONSchool Boards with a No Sweat Policy

Eastern Ontario (Catholic), ON

Hamilton Wentworth (Catholic), ON

Huron-Superior (Catholic), ON

Waterloo Region (Public), ON

York (Catholic), ON

Algonquin and Lakeshore (Catholic), ON


BE IT RESOLVED that the City Council and the City of commit to the adoption of a No Sweat procurement policy

within the next year.

MODEL MUNICIPAL RESOLUTION:FULL PUBLIC DISCLOSURE AND COMMITMENT TO A NO SWEAT POLICY

no sweat coalition partners help make ottawa a no sweat city

Documents

fired slide

culture slide

quarters source

sweat city slide

sweat policy slide

garment factory lesotho

garment factory romania

worker compound source