Please contact us to request additional materials, including a sample Labor Compliance Questionnaire and Code of Conduct Complaint Form.
Sweatfree Purchasing Guide
The Sweatfree Purchasing Guide, Version 1, is intended to help procurement officials develop and implement policies and rules to achieve compliance with their public entity’s procurement laws
and requirements and reach their goal of avoiding sweatshop products. Download it here. We very much appreciate your comments. Please contact us to let us know how the guide can be improved.
Legal Authority for a Local Sweatfree Procurement Policy
Power point presentation by Professor Robert Stumberg of the Harrison Institute for Public Law at Georgetown Law School discusses preemption threats to sweatfree procurement policies in New York State and how to minimize risk of legal challenge. Download it here.
Policy Resources from Public Entities
- City of Los Angeles, California: supply chain studies;factory monitoring, investigations, and outreach and education reports
- State of Maine: supply chain data
- City of Milwaukee, Wisconsin: apparel affidavits, non-poverty wage rates, and other resources
- State of Pennsylvania: multi-state independent monitoring contract
- City of Portland, Oregon: sweatfree compliance data and policy resources
- Saint Paul Public Schools, Minnesota: policy resources
- City of San Francisco, California: non-poverty wage rates, factory investigation reports, and other resources
- University City, Missouri: Sweatfree Task Force and policy resources
- Links to sweatfree procurement policies
Sweatfree Procurement Teleconferences
The Consortium hosts teleconferences for purchasing officials on best practices in sweatshop-free government procurement. To receive invitations to these forums, please contact us.
Notes from the meetings are available here.
