Sweatfree Procurement Teleconferences
The Sweatfree Purchasing Consortium hosts teleconferences on best practices in sweatshop-free government procurement. To receive invitations to these conversations, please send an email to contact(at)buysweatfree(dot)org or call 207-262-7277.
Minutes of the meetings and available in PDF (Adobe Acrobat) format:
May 31, 2011: Sweatfree Purchasing Consortium Annual Membership Meeting.
November 18, 2010: Labor Compliance in Bangladesh - Michael O’Donovan, Bureau of International Labor Affairs, U.S. Department of Labor
October 20, 2010: Alta Gracia, A New Living Wage Factory - Hodge, President, Knights Apparel, and Theresa Haas, Director of Communications, Worker Rights Consortium
January 28, 2010: Child Labor in Global Supply Chains & Response by U.S. Department of Labor - Brandie Sasser, Bureau of International Labor Affairs (ILAB), US Department of Labor
October 29, 2009: The Swedish experience in sweatfree procurement - Mathias Sylwan, Chief Legal Officer for the Swedish Association of Local Authorities and Regions
August 27, 2009: Sweatfree Purchasing Consortium - Bjorn Claeson, SweatFree Communities
June 25, 2009: San Francisco's system for evaluating bidders' compliance with labor standards - Galen Leung, Manager of Central Buying Division, San Francisco
May 28, 2009: U.S. procurement and decent work - Prof. Robert Stumberg, Georgetown Law School
April 30, 2009: Behind the scenes of Subsidizing Sweatshops II - Lynn DeWeese-Parkinson, Worker Information Center, Tijuana, Mexico, and Reynaldo Corporan, Federation of Trade Zone Workers, Dominican Republic
March 26, 2009: Best practices in university sweatfree licensing and lessons for government procurement - Jim Wilkerson, Duke University
February 26, 2009: Best practices for factory disclosure - Jeremy Blasi, Worker Rights Consortium
January 29, 2009: Human rights in garment producing countries - Trina Tocco, International Labor Rights Forum
October 23, 2008: Latest developments in sweatfree procurement: new policies, multi-state RFP for independent monitoring, vendor-fee rule draft - Jeff Baer, City of Portland, Oregon, and Bjorn Claeson, SweatFree Communities
September 25, 2008: Better Work: A case study in building sustainable labour standards compliance in supply chains - Ros Harvey, Global Programme Manager of the Better Work programme
July 24, 2008: Cooperative contract for independent factory monitor and other sweatfree developments - Betty Lamoreau, Director, Maine Division of Purchases
June 26, 2008: How much sweatfree purchasing costs - Joseph Bozich, CEO of Knights Apparel
May 22, 2008: Cooperative sweatfree purchasing - Paul Stembler, Western States Contracting Alliance
April 24, 2008: Lessons learned from the first official investigation of a factory producing for U.S. cities. - Farshid Yazdi, City of Los Angeles, and Nancy Steffan, Worker Rights Consortium
