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What percentage of the clothing will be made outside of the United
States? Why not work completely with domestic UNITE members? How
are you deciding what countries to use? Where are the No Sweat products
made?
For the long-term we expect to that at least 30% of our production
will be domestic. But this movement is not about free trade versus
protectionism. It's about free trade versus fair trade. The women
in the developing world desperately need these jobs. Our mission
is to support their struggle against exploitation--not take their
jobs away. Vigorous unions in the developing world will certainly
take some pressure off UNITE members here. We believe the only way
to protect
workers anywhere is to defend workers’ rights everywhere.
We will source from any country we can find that has good shops,
producing good quality, competitively priced garments, represented
by independent trade unions. Extremely repressive countries, without
exception, have no independent trade unions.
For complete information on all of our sources, please take a look
at
the Open Source Apparel section
of our web page.
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