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Let the Gap know that you're telling everyone: 'Don't buy me Gap this holiday season!'
You probably know that most Gap clothes are made in sweatshops. In factory after factory—in Indonesia, El Salvador, Mexico, Bangladesh and southern Africa—workers who make products for Gap tell of desperately low wages, unsafe working conditions, physical abuse, sexual harassment and harsh repression when they stand up for their rights. This holiday season, help workers fight back. Send an e-mail to Gap executives telling them you're taking Gap products off your holiday list!
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Subject: Don't buy me Gap this holiday season!
Dear [ Decision Maker ] ,
I am taking Gap off my holiday list, and I am telling others not to buy Gap this holiday season.
Gap clothes are out of style because of the poverty wages and the abuse of workers making Gap products. While Gap denies responsibility for sweatshop conditions, I know the company sets the prices for goods and labor in factories around the world. Your company is responsible for what happens to the people making Gap clothes.
Stop using sweatshop labor! Make sure that the workers making your products are paid a living wage, and that their rights are fully respected.
Sincerely,
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Campaign Launched:
December 09, 2002
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Tell your friends, family and co-workers: "Don't Buy Gap this holiday season!"
You can help put an end to Gap sweatshops worldwide by asking your friends, family and loved ones not to buy Gap this holiday season. Instead join students, religious leaders, and union members in pushing the Gap to improve the lives of hundreds of thousands of workers making Gap clothing!
If your clothes carry Gap Inc. labels (Gap, Banana Republic, and Old Navy), chances are they were produced by sweatshops in countries like the Indonesia, El Salvador, Bangladesh, Cambodia, Mexico and Lesotho.
A shocking new report compiled by UNITE shows a pattern of abuse in 43 factories producing Gap clothes across 3 continents. Workers report beatings, verbal abuse, sexual harassment, and harsh repression of union organizing. The pay is so low that workers making Gap clothes are trapped in desperate poverty. For the cost of a few dimes per garment, the Gap could double the pay of workers in these factories.
The Gap denies responsibility for the sweatshop conditions in the factories around the world producing its clothes. But as the largest brand-name clothing retailer in the United States, the Gap sets the prices for goods and labor worldwide, creating a global sweatshop system. The Gap is responsible for the conditions of workers making its products.
You can make a difference now! Don't buy Gap this holiday season! And spread the word to everyone you know – go to the Tell-A Friend section to pass the e-mail message on!
This BehindTheLabel campaign is coordinated by UNITE, the clothing industry union, in alliance with an international coalition of unions, as well as student activist organizations, religious groups and concerned consumers. The Gap’s sweatshop system controls the livelihoods of hundreds of thousands of workers around the globe. Together, we can make the Gap clean up its sweatshops.
Visit www.behindthelabel.org to find out more about the Gap and other sweatshop companies.
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