No Sweat

No Sweat is a grassroots campaign that builds solidarity among workers’ worldwide. We look to global social justice movements and to the international workers’ movement to build common, united, campaigning action against workplace exploitation and the sweatshop bosses. No Sweat stands for workers’ solidarity. WE ARE FOR: - A Living Wage - Safe Working Conditions - Independent Trade Unions All workers, in every country, deserve and need these rights. In order to enforce these rights, they need to be free to organise – the stronger the union, the safer the workplace! WE AIM TO: - Make solidarity with sweatshop workers and their organisations. - Publicise, expose and help stamp out sweatshop employment. - Fund independent unions around the world in their struggle for justice. With our brand of wholesale T-shirts, hoodies and tote bags we are taking the fight inside the garment industry. All our clothes are made of organic cotton and produced in a garment factory in Bangladesh called Oporajeo, a workers’ initiative set up by survivors of the Rana Plaza building collapse, with labour rights activists who were part of the rescue effort. The workers at Oporajeo earn wages high above the minimum, plus a benefits package that provides them with a higher standard of living, but most importantly of all, the workers have democratic control over their workplace. Our garments are sold wholesale so other businesses, trade unions, campaign groups and bands can use them for their own merchandise and help build an alternative to the sweatshop system. All the profits are put back into our campaign work, with 5% of the profit from each sale being put into a solidarity fund to support sweatshop workers around the world. We affectionately refer to this as ‘The T-shirt Project’.