What is United Students Against Sweatshops?
United Students Against Sweatshops (USAS) is an international student movement of campuses and individual students fighting for sweatshop free labor conditions and workers’ rights. Founded in the mid-1990’s, and representing students on some 200 campuses in the U.S. and abroad, USAS has been a leader in the fight to end abusive labor practices in the global apparel industry, among other sectors. USAS successfully worked to get hundreds of universities in the United States and Canada to adopt anti-sweatshop policies for the shirts, hats, and other apparel that bears our universities’ logos. USAS also helped created the Worker Rights Consortium, an independent monitoring organization which now represents 175 university administrations, to investigate labor conditions and enforce the university anti-sweatshop policies. USAS has stood with workers on all continents to demand respect for their basic rights. Read more about USAS’ history.
