From: Antti.rautiainen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Friday, 30 April 1999 01:18
Subject: URGENT:corrected fax action
What's New On Corporate Watch:
URGENT FAX ACTION!
Tell the Gap to End Labor Abuses in Saipan!
Thousands of Asian women working for top clothing manufaturers are forced
to work under slave-like conditionson the U.S.commonwealth Island of
Saipan. A recent class action suit charges that these companies are making
mega profits while 25,000 guest workers are paid starvation wages under
inhumane conditions. Among those named in the suit is the San
Francisco-based Gap Co. Tell Gap CEO Donald Fisher to end sweatshop labor.
Send a FREE FAX today!
http://www.corpwatch.org/trac/corner/alert/gap.html
Or check out the following background information first:
Lawsuit Charges Gap, Wal-Mart, Others for Sweatshops:
http://www.corpwatch.org/trac/corner/worldnews/other/283.html
Thank you for your support.
Sample letter:
To:
Donald Fisher
Chairman The Gap, Incorporated
One Harrison Street
San Francisco CA 94105
USA
415-427-7037
Dear Mr. Fisher,
As a Gap customer, I want to express my concern about the sweatshop
conditions and labor abuses on the island of Saipan. As a global
company contracting in dozens of countries worldwide, The Gap has
an obligation to its customers and its workers to reverse the race
to the bottom in labor standards that is occurring in the garment
industry.
In Saipan, The Gap has a responsibility to lead the way towards
ending labor and human rights abuses by taking steps to:
* Protect workers' rights, including the freedom of association
and collective bargaining.
* Abolish the use of labor contracts that deny workers their basic
human rights.
* Ban the collection of recruitment fees and create a trust fund to
repay such fees for all present and former workers, and pay return
passage for any present or former worker who wishes to return home.
* Set up a credible, enforceable independent monitoring system, with
semiannual public reports, to ensure an end to all labor, health and
safety abuses.
I thank you for your attention to this urgent matter and look forward
to hearing your response.
Sincerely,
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Corporate Watch
PO Box 29344
San Francisco, CA 94129
Tel: 415-561-6568
Fax: 415-561-6493
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URL: http://www.corpwatch.org
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