The 2013-14 USAS International Solidarity Campaign urges universities to make an addition to their codes of conduct, requiring all of their licensees producing collegiate items in Bangladesh to sign onto the Accord for Fire and Building Safety in Bangladesh.Penn State USAS’s First Op Ed for ‘End Deathtraps’ Campaign in The Daily Collegian, September 26.AFL-CIO Allies with Student Activist Group as it Rolls Out New Labor Strategy – USAS and AFL allianceThe United Students Against Sweatshops and the AFL-CIO have now formed a formal partnership between the two organizations.Garment Worker SolidarityIn hard-fought victory, USAS students and workers, acting together with the support of university’s throughout the nation and the world, pressured German sportswear giant Adidas to compensate 2,700 former Indonesian garment workers who produced collegiate apparel at PT Kizone, an Adidas supplier factory. The factory closed down over two years ago. A PT Kizone workers’ press release stated that “the former workers will receive a substantial sum from Adidas” and the settlement will resolve a powerful international campaign over Adidas’s prior refusal to pay $1.8 million in unpaid severance pay.USAS and the WRC Designated Suppliers ProgramUSAS is currently partnering with the Worker Rights Consortium (WRC), conducting campaigns on campuses across the country to take part in its Designated Suppliers Program. The Worker Rights Consortium is an independent monitoring agency which universities may affiliate. Under the Designated Suppliers Program there is an extremely higher likelihood that products bought by universities will actually be made without the exploitation of workers. Alta GraciaUSAS is also currently working on Alta Gracia apparel campaigns on many university campuses. Alta Gracia, a factory in the Dominican Republic, is a recent initiative in the collegiate apparel production industry. Once a sweatshop itself, factory employees are now unionized and paid a living-wage. USAS groups working on Alta Gracia campaigns are appealing to their universities to sell Alta Gracia apparel in bookstores and, in fact, include a majority of Alta Gracia products in the apparel section. Alta Gracia products are available in over 450 college and university bookstores throughout the United States.Campus Worker JusticeUSAS chapters across the country are engaged with campaigns to increase just working conditions and union representation for workers on university campuses. The intent is to set a higher standard of working conditions for all workers by starting with the place where students can offer the greatest advocacy, in favor of workers on their own campuses.Kick Wall Street Off CampusUSAS chapters working on Kick Wall Street Off Campus campaigns are currently asking universities to stop dealing with banks that contribute to prolonging the economic crisis and hurting workers and their families struggling to pay their bills and mortgage payments.No Sweatshop Pizza on CampusThis is a campaign in which students are supporting the Palermo Workers Union in their fight to win a union at Palermo Villa Inc. that produces frozen pizza sold at several universities and stores such as Costco. The company has taken part in an extreme anti-union campaign as workers seek better working conditions.HEI Hotel Worker SolidarityThis involves students asking their universities to divest from the hotel company that has persisted in its use of severe anti-union campaigns against its workers.USAS and workers at WalmartUSAS is also supporting Walmart workers in their fight to form unions and gain fair working conditions and a living-wage.