Stop Sweatshops
For the last 8 years, young women at the Shah Makdhum factory in Bangladesh have been forced to work over 15 hours a day, 7 days a week, denied maternity benefits, beaten and paid just 15 cents for every $17.99 Disney shirts they sewed.
When the women stood up for their rights and denounced the violations, Disney responded by cutting and running, pulling its work from the factory and dumping the women on the street with nothing, penniless, facing hunger and misery.
Disney owes these workers more than that - Disney owes them justice.
We want Disney to do the right thing - to stay in Bangladesh while working with its contractor clean up the factory and finally guarantee that the human and worker rights of these women will be respected!
To learn more about sweatshops and ways to get involved contact:
Marilyn Clement, Executive Secretary for Economic Justice, at (212) 870-3766.
The Campaign for the Abolition of Sweatshops and Child Labor is a social movement dedicated to ending the exploitation of workers (United Methodist Women’s Division is one of the founders). For more information, contact Russ Agdern, Campaign Organizer, at (212) 352-4712, ragdern@abolishsweatshops.org or the organization at www.abolishsweatshops.org .
People of Faith Network, Contact: (718) 625-2819, pofn@cloud9.net
National Labor Committee, Contact: (212) 242-3002, nlc@nlcnet.org