September 14, 2005 Associated Press
	SF pledges to use purchasing power to produce sweatshop reform -- San Francisco supervisors unanimously approved a new law on Tuesday that requires city contractors to guarantee in writing that the uniforms, computers and other goods they supply were not made by workers exploited in so-called "sweatshops."
September 06, 2005 KGO-TV
	'Sweat Free' Measure Headed To Mayor -- The San Francisco Board of Supervisors is set to give mandatory second approval of the city's "sweatfree" ordinance at its meeting this afternoon. If the measure receives secondary board approval and the signature of the mayor, which is expected later this month, it will establish strict rules against the public purchase of products from sweatshops and encourage the local purchase of such items.
August 17, 2005 San Francisco Examiner
	Sweatshop ordinance wins unanimous backing -- The San Francisco Board of Supervisors unanimously adopted a sweatshop-free rule for city purchasing, a plan that its sponsors said had taken too long to pass but still deserved praise as a pioneering effort.
August 10, 2005 San Francisco Bay Guardian
	Sweating slave labor -- As activists and bureaucrats chiseled out the final details of a historically rigorous, sweat-free purchasing standard for San Francisco, state agents raided dozens of garment manufacturing plants throughout California.
August 05, 2005 San Francisco Chronicle
	Key panel backs ban on sweatshop buys -- A measure that would bar city departments and agencies from buying products manufactured in sweatshops was approved Thursday by a key San Francisco Board of Supervisors committee.
August 05, 2005 San Francisco Examiner
	S.F. close in on anti-sweatshop rules -- San Francisco is close to implementing the nation's most stringent rules against public purchase of products from sweatshops, which supporters of the law hope will result in greater local manufacturing purchases.
August 04, 2005 San Francisco Chronicle
	5 garment factories closed by state's new task force -- Five Bay Area garment factories were shut down and cited for allegedly violating state labor laws in a statewide sweep through 18 garment businesses Tuesday and Wednesday.
June 30, 2005 San Francisco Chronicle
	EDITORIAL: Sweatshop Crackdown -- By launching a campaign to eliminate worldwide sweatshop-labor abuse, San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom and Supervisor Tom Ammiano made a powerful statement denouncing a global travesty.
June 28, 2005 American Chronicle
	Newsom & Ammiano Propose Sweatshop-Free Ordinance -- Mayor Gavin Newsom and Supervisor Tom Ammiano introduced what would be considered to be the strongest anti-sweatshop legislation in the country in a press conference at San Francisco City Hall today. If passed by the board, the proposed ordinance will become the strongest sweatshop-free legislation and a model that can be adopted by cities throughout the country.
June 28, 2005 San Francisco Chronicle
	Newsom backs sweatshop labor ban -- Jumping into one of the toughest moral dilemmas of the international economy, Mayor Gavin Newsom of San Francisco announced his support Monday for a campaign lead by Global Exchange to eliminate worldwide sweatshop labor abuse.
June 26, 2005 San Francisco Examiner
	Labor contracts in front of board -- The Board of Supervisors will consider contracts with 18 separate labor organizations represented in The City's workforce at its meeting Tuesday.
June 24, 2005 Global Exchange
	Mayor Gavin Newsom and Supervisor Tom Ammiano to Introduce Sweatshop Free Ordinance -- Mayor Gavin Newsom and Supervisor Tom Ammiano are set to introduce, what would be considered to be the strongest anti-sweatshop legislation in the country in a press conference Monday, June 27, 2005 at 12:30pm.
June 06, 2005 The Galveston County Daily News
	Garment worker challenges DeLay -- House Majority Leader Tom DeLay says he found no victims of sweatshops, sex slavery or forced abortions on the Pacific island of Saipan in the mid-1990s. But Carmencita Abad says that’s because DeLay did not want to see them.
June 04, 2005 San Francisco Chronicle
	Rev. Billy warns of rampant consumerism's eternal price -- A tanned reverend with a bleached-blond pompadour and a beige polyester suit blessed the offices of three San Francisco supervisors on Friday to protect the city from the "shopocalypse."
May 22, 2005 New York Times
	First, They Took On Taco Bell. Now, the Fast-Food World -- Following a triumph over Taco Bell, a farmworkers group in Florida is turning to a larger target: the rest of the fast-food industry.
May 12, 2005 The New York Times
	Cambodia's Garmet Makers Hold Off a Vast Chinese Challenge -- Thanks to an unorthodox labor program backed by the United States and intended to improve working conditions, much of Cambodia's garment industry has been holding its own since the end of the global quota system that parceled out shares of the apparel and textile business country by country. A majority of Cambodia's factories have retained the loyalty of major retailers around the world by appealing not just to their need for low-cost production but also to their desire to avoid the stigma of exploiting poor laborers in distant sweatshops.
May 08, 2005 Tom Hayden
	SF Embraces Freedom of Association Language After Last-Minute Negotiations -- After 36 hours of back-and-forth negotiations, the San Francisco mayor’s office agreed to including freedom of association and collective bargaining rights in the proposed sweatfree code of conduct on Thursday morning. Hours later, a supervisors’ committee hearing recommended the final version to the full board for passage. Over two hundred supporters cheered the outcome.
April 14, 2005 Guardian International
	Nike lists abuses at Asian factories -- Nike, long the subject of sweatshop allegations, yesterday produced the most comprehensive picture yet of the 700 factories that produce its footwear and clothing, detailing admissions of abuses, including forced overtime and restricted access to water.
April 04, 2005 USA TODAY
	Cambodia's sales pitch: Sweatshop-free products -- Garment factories in Cambodia, one of the world's poorest nations, aren't gloomy pits of Dickensian misery. Instead, Cambodia is seeking to become the rare Third World country to develop economically while treating workers reasonably well.
March 17, 2005 Los Angeles City Beat
	Breakin' a Sweat -- The Los Angeles mayoral election might not have inspired intense national interest, but behind the scenes, city government has been gearing up to set a national precedent on a decidedly political issue: putting teeth into L.A.’s anti-sweatshop ordinance, the strongest in the nation.
March 08, 2005 Reuters
	Tomato Worker Boycott Ends After Taco Bell Deal -- TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (Reuters) - Florida farm workers ended a three-year boycott of fast food chain Taco Bell on Tuesday after the company agreed to force its suppliers to pay a penny-per-pound surcharge on Florida tomatoes.
March 04, 2005 Hartford Courant
	Standards Proposed For School-Apparel Firms -- The companies that make apparel for the University of Connecticut and other state schools would have to meet some of the toughest anti-sweatshop standards in the nation under a bill that will be aired next week in the General Assembly.
January 05, 2005 New Pittsburgh Courier
	Protesters want jobs in tsunami ravaged lands -- On New Years Eve, a small group of worker advocates tried to extend a hand to some of those devastated by the tsunami that has killed an estimated 140,000 people across the Indian Ocean rim. Members of No Sweatshops Bucco! and the Pittsburgh Anti-Sweatshop Community Alliance protested the expiration of the international Multi Fiber Arrangement Dec. 31 and called on the Pittsburgh Pirates to help save the jobs of textile workers in Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Indonesia who make the baseball franchise’s merchandise.
December 01, 2004 Washington Post
	Wal-Mart Loves Unions (In China) -- Wal-Mart has finally found a union it can live with. Up to now America's largest employer has opposed every effort of its employees to form a union. Wal-Mart doesn't recognize unions; it doesn't even recognize "employees." The proper Wal-Mart name for its workers is "associates," a term that connotes higher status and collegiality and that actually means lower pay and workplace autocracy. For the privilege of associating themselves with Wal-Mart, its employees are paid so little that many can't afford the health insurance the company generously allows them to buy. One study of health care in Las Vegas revealed that a plurality of that city's employed Medicaid recipients worked at Wal-Mart.
November 26, 2004 Los Angeles Times
	Sweat, Fear and Resignation Amid all the Toys -- Sweatshops aren't unusual, of course, in a country that possesses a large and cheap workforce and a permissive government hungry to attract big business. What makes this situation notable is that these workers make products for a company widely considered one of the most socially responsible American firms: Mattel Inc.
November 12, 2004 Washington Post
	Stitching Up Global Labor Rights -- This could be a watershed moment in free trade, producing an unexpectedly positive result from the expiration of the quota system. If Cambodia takes the risk, investing in its labor-rights market niche to counter China's cheap labor, other countries may follow suit. Instead of the quota system's expiration sparking a "race to the bottom," with each country marketing cheaper labor than the next, the Cambodian example could set an important precedent, strengthening labor standards for textile and garment workers worldwide.
November 09, 2004 NO MORE SWEATSHOPS!
	Los Angeles Council Passes Anti-Sweatshop Ordinance -- The City Council unanimously adopted the nation’s most aggressive anti-sweatshop ordinance by a unanimous vote today after two years of lobbying by local unions, sweatshop workers, clergy and activists.
November 03, 2004 S.F. Bay Guardian
	Sewn up tight -- According to the civil suit filed against Quan and the Wongs, between March 2001 and August 2001 the trio failed to pay some 276 employees more than $1 million in wages and vacation pay. They allegedly kept this battalion of workers – nearly all of whom spoke only Cantonese, and many of whom purportedly made less than minimum wage – toiling with promises that the paychecks would arrive any day. The money never showed up.
November 01, 2004 New York Times
	States Are Battling Against Wal-Mart Over Health Care -- In the national debate over what to do about the growing number of working people with little or no health insurance, no other company may be taking more heat than the country's largest employer, Wal-Mart Stores.
August 24, 2004 Mercury News
	Senate OKs offshoring bill -- California is one of 34 states where legislation has been introduced that would restrict work on state agency contracts from being performed overseas, or impose regulations on offshoring practices to safeguard the security of medical and financial information. Legislation in two other states passed but was vetoed.