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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!
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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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nike Archive
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Students Seek Dialogue with Sodexo over Poverty Wages and Anti-Union IntimidationÉtudiants recherchent le dialogue avec Sodexo sur des salaires de misère et d’intimidation.
Posted on December 20, 2010 | No CommentsA letter from students is on its way across the Atlantic. Students are appealing for a second time to Pierre Bellon, Founder and Chairman of the Board for Sodexo, to help change his corporation's treatment of its workers in the United States. You can read the letter in English and in French. -
VICTORY! Nike “Just Pays It”; Students and Garment Workers Beat Sportswear Giant!
Posted on July 26, 2010 | No CommentsMinutes ago, the CGT union in Honduras announced that it reached an agreement with Nike on behalf of the 1,800 former workers who sewed Nike college apparel at the factories Hugger de Honduras and Vision Tex. One year and six months after the factories closed and failed to pay $2.5 million in severance to the workers, and after a USAS campaign severed Nike contracts with universities for the first time ever, workers and USAS forced Nike to agree to everything they had been demanding. -
Nike Manager Admits to Sweatshops, Pressure Escalates at U of Washington
Posted on July 21, 2010 | No CommentsAs student activists continue to step up efforts to educate consumers at Nike retail stores across the country, positive feedback is pouring. One concerned customer e-mailed USAS to let us... -
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... -
Seattle Community Urges University of Washington to End Nike Contract
Posted on July 16, 2010 | No CommentsOn July 15th, a broad coalition of professors, community leaders, public organizations, alumni and students in Seattle sent an open letter to University of Washington President Mark Emmert demanding that he end... -
Students Cover Nike Lobbyist Office with “Just Pay It!” Flyers
Posted on July 13, 2010 | No CommentsEarly this morning, just blocks away from Congress, USAS members and community activists knocked on the front door of Nike’s lobbying headquarters. The students, armed with handwritten letters from the... -
Nike “Bites the Dust”: Cornell Commits to Dropping Nike
Posted on July 6, 2010 | No CommentsCornell University has committed to dropping Nike over its refusal to pay $2.2 million legally owed to 1,800 workers formerly employed at two Nike supplier factories in Honduras. The decision... -
Critical moment for Honduran workers’ fight: Tell Cornell to Cut Nike!
Posted on June 22, 2010 | No CommentsThis week, Cornell University President David Skorton is deciding whether to cut the school’s lucrative contract with Nike, or to continue doing business with the company despite grave violations of... -
Thousands march on Nike in company’s hometown
Posted on May 1, 2010 | No CommentsEarlier today, thousands from across Oregon and around the country marched on the Niketown store in downtown Portland, just miles away from Nike’s global headquarters. The march on May 1st,... -
Nike on Trial in its Hometown: Portland Community Leaders Call for Fairness after Hearing
Posted on April 28, 2010 | No CommentsThe Nike Truth Tour has made it to Portland after its cross-country journey! Last night, just a few miles from Nike’s global headquarters, the Portland Area Workers’ Rights Board held...