What this all adds up to is cover-up, secrecy, and the continuation of horrible work conditions in the apparel industry. When they went to El Salvador this past summer, they met and brought back workers from a sweatshop that made clothes for the Kathie Lee line. These workers gave extensive testimonies in the U.S. of workers being hit to work faster, locked bathrooms, and death threats for organizing. The Anti-Sweatshop Campaign wants a different system of monitoring that will get to the truth and expose these corporations, so that they cannot deny allegations of humyn rights atrocities. Disclosure is a release of basic information on the origin of products, and the situation surrounding the production of those commodities.
Full disclosure seeks other information like workers' wages, benefits, and ages.
Because the sweatshop industry thrives in secrecy. Factories can evade inspection by locating themselves in secret locations. They can evade transparency by blocking public access, often in South and Central America by surrounding their sites with armed guards and barbed wire fencing. Disclosure is crucial to our ability to pressure corporations to acknowledge responsibility for sweatshops and taking action against violations. One of them is on fire.