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Responsibility through Collaboration

Thanks to overlapping supply chains, the Consortium can help public entities achieve their goals of sweatfree purchasing cheaper and more effectively than they can on their own.  For example, investigating labor rights compliance at one factory that supplies several public entities allows them to share the investigation and monitoring expenses. In addition, a larger market for decent working conditions provides greater incentives to the industry to achieve compliance with public entities’ codes of conduct.

The Consortium is working to:

  • Help government agencies develop and implement policies, rules, and practices to achieve compliance with their procurement laws and requirements and reach their goal of avoiding sweatshop products.
  • Develop a supplier database and associated technology for use by members, industry, and the public to catalog and monitor industry compliance with government procurement sweatfree requirements.
  • Create capacity to monitor and investigate working conditions in factories that make uniforms and other products that Consortium members purchase.
  • Support educational efforts for members and other public entities interested in issues related to best practices in sweatfree procurement.
  • Serve as a coordinating body and resource center for public entities and other organizations that share the goal of sweatfree procurement.

For more information, please contact us.

 

"As it grows, the sweatfree market will create more qualified vendors and sweatfree workplaces, and help to foster better conditions for increasing numbers of workers. The rules of competition will no longer favor businesses that produce the cheapest possible goods at the expense of workers, but those that provide good value without unlawfully sacrificing humane working conditions and disregarding workers' human and labor rights."

-    From the vision statement