In 1999, the Brown SLA conducted a campaign to establish a Code of Conduct regarding the manufacturing of Brown apparel in sweatshops.
Sweatshops are an important and preventable human rights issue.
85-hour work weeks, sexual harassment, union busting, and perhaps worst of all, wages so low that workers are unable to provide basic food and clothing for their families. These conditions are consistently reported by workers, human rights groups, and even the governments of these countries. The goal of our work is not to shut down these sweatshops - we recognize that these jobs and investments are vitally important to the developing economies in these countries. The workers and their families depend on this income, as inadequate as it is, to survive. We work to leverage our power as consumers to improve conditions - we would never support any course of action that would cause these workers to lose their jobs.