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Sweatshops have long hours, low pay, and unsafe or unhealthy working conditions. Sweatshops severely restrict workers' freedoms, and more than often treat workers less than human. Its truly a form of slavery.

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Come support the cause 12pm April 19th at the United University Church!!! Join the event here!!! http://www.facebook.com/events/352550784791155/ Expose the Truth about Trojan Apparel being made by sweatshop labor! Students are finding out and asserting that USC sign the Workers Rights Consortium http://www.workersrights.org/

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“The norm across the global apparel industry is your typical sweatshop, where workers are paid poverty wages,”   [...] “There’s rampant sexual harassment. A lot of times there’s even physical abuse." -Teresa Cheng

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“The norm across the global apparel industry is your typical sweatshop, where workers are paid poverty wages,”   [...] “There’s rampant sexual harassment. A lot of times there’s even physical abuse." -Teresa Cheng

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“adidas’s sweatshop abuse is outrageous,” -Teresa Cheng

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"It surprises people that there's actually a very large number of slaves in the world today-our best estimate is 27 million. And that is defining a slave in a very narrow way; we're not talking about sweatshop workers or people who are just poor, we're talking about people who are controlled by violence, who cannot walk away, who are being held against their will, who are being paid nothing."

Kevin Bales

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Teresa Cheng, first became involved in labor rights activism at the University of Southern California, where she led an anti-sweatshop campaign that ended up in the occupation of the university president’s office. As a national organizer for United Students Against Sweatshops (USAS), she trained and coordinated a network of student labor organizations across the country that waged several successful campaigns in solidarity with unions to demand that global corporations respect workers’ rights.

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Teresa Cheng, first became involved in labor rights activism at the University of Southern California, where she led an anti-sweatshop campaign that ended up in the occupation of the university president’s office. As a national organizer for United Students Against Sweatshops (USAS), she trained and coordinated a network of student labor organizations across the country that waged several successful campaigns in solidarity with unions to demand that global corporations respect workers’ rights.

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United Students Against Sweatshops (USAS) is the nation’s largest youth-led, student labor campaign organization, with affiliated locals on over 150 campuses. USAS affiliates run both local and nationally-coordinated campaigns for economic justice in partnership with worker and community organizations.

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Thousands of apparel workers leave the factories after a day's work in Cambodia.

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Cheng’s first campaigns focused on Russell Athletic, which fired 1,200 Honduran workers and closed its factory after they tried collective bargaining. Cheng worked with the national umbrella group United Students Against Sweatshops to persuade universities to sever licensing agreements with Russell. 

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Cheng’s first campaigns focused on Russell Athletic, which fired 1,200 Honduran workers and closed its factory after they tried collective bargaining. Cheng worked with the national umbrella group United Students Against Sweatshops to persuade universities to sever licensing agreements with Russell. 

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Teresa Cheng (left) picketing outside a Verizon store in Washington, DC, in support of Verizon workers on strike.