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Labor 411’s Sahid Fawaz sat down with Buy Your Values Steering Committee Member and Catholic Ethical Purchasing Alliance (“CEPA”) coordinator, Grace Adams, for a Q&A about its role as a partner in the Buy Your Values UCLA Campaign. Sahid: Thank you for taking a few minutes to chat about CEPA’s work in the ethical garment…

‘They weren’t even sweating. We were the ones sweating!’ Shein is a giant in the fast fashion industry – an industry so large and pervasive that the average consumer has five times more clothing now than in the 1980s. A key part of Shein’s marketing strategy is using social media to reach millions of consumers….

April 27 Event to Spotlight Rampant Wage Theft Caroline Luce Ph.D. is a lecturer at UCLA’s Institute for Research on Labor & Employment. Her specialty is immigration, labor, and working-class culture in the American West. She is also a member of the Buy Your Values UCLA Steering Committee and is coordinating the Pay Your Workers…

The Catholic Ethical Purchasing Alliance (CEPA) held week-long immersions at The Industrial Commons in Morganton, NC in March with John Carroll University, College of the Holy Cross and Fordham University. Over 40 students, faculty, and staff experienced firsthand the innovation of a localized supply chain in the garment industry. Participants learned humanitarian and environmental injustices…

We are pleased to announce the formation of an activist steering committee made up of students, faculty, garment workers and other groups aligned with our socially responsible values to kick off the Buy Your Values UCLA movement this year. Our goal is to raise awareness about ethical purchasing, and specifically to get ethical and union-made…

An Interview with Nayantara Banerjee of the Garment Worker Center Nayantara Banerjee, Industry Researcher and Strategist at the Garment Worker Center and a member of the Buy Your Values UCLA Steering Committee, sat down with Labor 411’s Sahid Fawaz to talk about the Garment Worker Center’s role in the UCLA campaign. Sahid: Thank you for…

This catalog is what we have created as we begin to pitch these companies to UCLA retail stores to offer sustainable and worker-ethical options from our company partners that offer a higher standard of environmental justice, worker democracy, and worker health & safety. While this catalog is aimed at retail stores, we hopefully will be…

We wanted to take an introductory look into the idea of degrowth, specifically in the garment industry, based on an article from Remake Our World by Sumedha Vemulakonda entitled, “Why We Should Be Talking About Degrowth in Fashion.” According to Business Insider, clothing production has roughly doubled in the last 20 years. In visual terms,…

There’s a lot of debate as to what makes a worker cooperative and what doesn’t. Cooperatives more broadly are actually more common than you may think, with credit unions and housing co-ops being clear examples. A worker cooperative specifically has some differing definitions country to country. Richard Wolff thinks they can serve as a transition…