Teresa Cheng by Kaitlyn Mayberry https://padlet.com/kaitlynmayberry1/a9x91sf73knx Social Activist en-us 2017-11-27 13:27:15 UTC 2017-11-29 14:43:22 UTC hello@padlet.com kaitlynmayberry1 https://padlet.com/kaitlynmayberry1/a9x91sf73knx/wish/210377918 Teresa Cheng (left) picketing outside a Verizon store in Washington, DC, in support of Verizon workers on strike.]]> 2017-11-27 13:29:28 UTC https://padlet.com/kaitlynmayberry1/a9x91sf73knx/wish/210377918 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. kaitlynmayberry1 https://padlet.com/kaitlynmayberry1/a9x91sf73knx/wish/210378680 2017-11-27 13:30:51 UTC https://padlet.com/kaitlynmayberry1/a9x91sf73knx/wish/210378680 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. kaitlynmayberry1 https://padlet.com/kaitlynmayberry1/a9x91sf73knx/wish/210380976 2017-11-27 13:35:13 UTC https://padlet.com/kaitlynmayberry1/a9x91sf73knx/wish/210380976 kaitlynmayberry1 https://padlet.com/kaitlynmayberry1/a9x91sf73knx/wish/210381815 2017-11-27 13:36:59 UTC https://padlet.com/kaitlynmayberry1/a9x91sf73knx/wish/210381815 kaitlynmayberry1 https://padlet.com/kaitlynmayberry1/a9x91sf73knx/wish/210383719 “adidas’s sweatshop abuse is outrageous,” -Teresa Cheng]]> 2017-11-27 13:40:41 UTC https://padlet.com/kaitlynmayberry1/a9x91sf73knx/wish/210383719 “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 kaitlynmayberry1 https://padlet.com/kaitlynmayberry1/a9x91sf73knx/wish/210384170 2017-11-27 13:41:28 UTC https://padlet.com/kaitlynmayberry1/a9x91sf73knx/wish/210384170 kaitlynmayberry1 https://padlet.com/kaitlynmayberry1/a9x91sf73knx/wish/210385193 Thousands of apparel workers leave the factories after a day's work in Cambodia.]]> 2017-11-27 13:43:41 UTC https://padlet.com/kaitlynmayberry1/a9x91sf73knx/wish/210385193 kaitlynmayberry1 https://padlet.com/kaitlynmayberry1/a9x91sf73knx/wish/210386161 2017-11-27 13:45:13 UTC https://padlet.com/kaitlynmayberry1/a9x91sf73knx/wish/210386161 kaitlynmayberry1 https://padlet.com/kaitlynmayberry1/a9x91sf73knx/wish/210386425 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.]]> 2017-11-27 13:45:42 UTC https://padlet.com/kaitlynmayberry1/a9x91sf73knx/wish/210386425 kaitlynmayberry1 https://padlet.com/kaitlynmayberry1/a9x91sf73knx/wish/211411021 2017-11-29 14:38:19 UTC https://padlet.com/kaitlynmayberry1/a9x91sf73knx/wish/211411021 kaitlynmayberry1 https://padlet.com/kaitlynmayberry1/a9x91sf73knx/wish/211413898 "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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