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AU Students Say: “What’s Disgusting? Union Busting! What’s Outrageous? Adjunct Wages!”
03 February 2012 3:01 PM | No Comments
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Victory: Gildan Union Leaders in Haiti Rehired!
24 January 2012 6:01 PM | No Comments
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As Occupy Wall Street Has Changed Protest Dynamics, Vibrant Groups Like United Students Against Sweatshops Are Back in the Forefront
23 January 2012 12:56 PM | No Comments
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Watch USAS on ESPN, exposing Dallas Cowboys sweatshops!
08 January 2012 12:32 PM | No Comments
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Eleven victories in 2011: Celebrate an incredible year for the student movement!
23 December 2011 2:03 PM | No Comments
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alta gracia Archive
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Alta Gracia Workers Tour the East Coast!
Posted on September 2, 2011 | No CommentsFor the past 14 years, USAS has proven that we’re able to break brands when they violate workers’ rights. For the second year in a row, we’re able to also... -
USAS International Solidarity Committee Calls for National Anti-Sweatshop Week of Action
Posted on February 23, 2011 | 757 CommentsStudents take action on more than 30 universities to protest sweatshop conditions in the production of college apparel and demand bookstores increase orders from Alta Gracia- unionized, living wage factory... -
Students protest to demand Alta Gracia union-made apparel from UCLA Bookstore
Posted on February 16, 2011 | 267 CommentsStudents protest to demand socially responsible apparel policy from ASUCLA to support Alta Gracia By CRYSTAL HSING NEIL YONZON Published February 16, 2011 in The Daily Bruin Associated Students UCLA committed to a... -
This Industry is a Battleground, this T-shirt is a Victory: Alta Gracia!
Posted on February 14, 2011 | 570 CommentsLearn how members of United Students Against Sweatshops (USAS) joined with workers and fought for over a decade to help win the first union, living wage factory in the Dominican... -
Fresno State USAS Launches Campaign for Alta Gracia & WRC Affiliation!
Posted on January 31, 2011 | 933 CommentsFresno State USAS Launches Alta Gracia & WRC Affiliation Campaign! The national student movement for workers’ rights in the factories making our college apparel is growing and spreading to Central... -
U.S. Students Investigate Sodexo Practices at Gold Mine in Dominican RepublicLes étudiants des États-Unis à enquêter sur les pratiques Sodexo mine d’or en République Dominicaine
Posted on January 13, 2011 | No CommentsToday students from seven U.S. universities visited Pueblo Viejo in the Dominican Republic to investigate reported worker rights abuses by Sodexo at a gold mine co-owned by Barrick Gold Corporation... -
After decade of struggle, Dominican Republic worker activists make college apparel again
Posted on July 19, 2010 | 2,165 CommentsEver since student activists first formed USAS in the ’90s, apparel corporations and college administrators insisted it was impossible to produce our schools’ clothes in union factories that pay living...