Earlier this month, Gov. Ed Rendell endorsed an interstate effort to better enforce anti-sweatshop policies. Pennsylvania is the first state to pledge its support for a proposed anti-sweatshop consortium, made up of states, counties and municipalities from across the country.
"Rendell has taken the leadership of states nationally," says Kenneth Miller, who has long been active in local anti-sweatshop campaigns. "He requires the disclosure of factory locations. He requires wage disclosure. And he's taking the leadership in consolidating that information with different jurisdictions."
[Pictured at the right: July 12, 2008 – Kenneth Miller of the Pittsburgh Anti Sweatshop Community Alliance (PASCA), Bjorn Claeson, Executive Director of SweatFree Communities, Dennis Brutus of the Thomas Merton Center, Jay Lantzy, Director, Office of Labor/Management Cooperation, PA DOL represented Governor Ed Rendell, and Howard Jackson of Pittsburgh’s Black Political Empowerment Project. We gathered at a Workers Rights Board Hearing, organized by the Philadelphia Jobs with Justice, to hear worker testimony, celebrate SweatFree Communities 5th Anniversary, and join Governor Rendell’s SweatFree Consortium outreach to his colleagues during the National Governor Association meeting.]
FOR
IMMEDIATE RELEASE -
February
1, 2008
For Immediate Release
October 2, 2007 Pittsburgh Mayor Luke Ravenstahl, Kenneth Miller of the Pittsburgh Anti Sweatshop Community Alliance, Sarah Campbell and Rick Adams of the Black Political Empowerment Project, Allegheny County Chief Executive Dan Onorato at the Racial Equity and Empowerment Summit. The news release below was sent out in anticipation of the October 20 SEA meeting. The SEA disappointed us by taking NO ACTION. The Mayor and Chief Executive appoint SEA Board Members. On October 2 they assured PASCA members that they did not intervene. Why did the SEA fail us at the last minute? 
