The latest news and activities from No Sweat - the UK campaign against sweatshops.
Campaigning: International
No Sweat, the UK campaign against sweatshops, is launching a solidarity campaign with Indonesian workers. If you are involved in a student / trade union or other organisation, why not twin them with a union branch of the FNPBI (the largest free trade union federation in Indonesia) and help them in their fight to organise the workers making the goods for Nike and other multinationals.
Also, if you can get your hands on any good, second hand computer equipment that could be useful to a branch in Indonesia get in touch and we'll arrange getting it out there.
Campaigning: Unionisation
With the GMB trade union (London region) we are in the process of launching a drive to organise sweatshop workers in the East End of London. The union has a hitlist and are working out which ones to target. We will redoing the work that the famous radical suffragette Sylvia Pankhurst did last century.
The Transport and General Workers' Union (T&G) are also running a campaign with The East London Community Organisation (TELCO) to organise cleaning and ancilliary workers at Canary Wharf. Many of these workers are being pade the minimum wage or less for servicing some of the richest companies in Britain. If the bosses at Canary Wharf can rake in millions, why shouldn't the workers have some of it?
That's the question the T&G and No Sweat are asking. So far we haven't had a very good answer!
Campaigning: Taking on the multinationals
Stalls are going on all over the country outside branches of the Gap, Nike and Disney. Regular weekend stalls take place in Manchester, Sheffield, Leicester, Nottingham, Leeds, Oxford, Bromley and Camden. If you want to come on any of these give us a ring (07904 431959), email admin@nosweat.org.uk or visit www.nosweat.org.uk for details.
If you want some help getting a campaign stall going in your area or want to organise a meeting in your town/school/college/union, we can supply publicity, people and whatever else you need to get it going. Just get in touch with No Sweat.
No Sweat, PO Box 36707, London SW9 8YA. Tel 07904 431959 admin@nosweat.org.uk
