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What's New At STITCH? Take Action to Support Women Unionists in Central America For
many years, STITCH has supported the unionized women workers at the maquila
factory, CHOI SHIN and CIMA Textiles in Villa Nueva, Guatemala. Three
weeks ago factory owners came and tried to close the factory and ship
these union jobs to nonunion factories in Guatemala and Nicaragua to take
advantage of cheaper labor and to bust the union. SITRACHOI and SITRACIMA
are two of the only remaining unions in the textile industry in Guatemala.
It is vital that we take action to support these workers TODAY! Click here to go to our blog for more information In July, STITCH will Present at the Midwest School for Women Workers and at local events in Mississippi, Tennessee and NW Arkansas! This summer STITCH is partnering with one of our allies from SITRABI, a banana union in Guatemala, to provide training for working women in the United States. We will join a number of amazing presenters at the Midwest School for Women Workers in St. Louis during the weekend of July 11 - 13. You can find more information here. After the event in St. Louis, STITCH will continue our solidarity work by jointly providing training for immigrant workers throughout the south of the United States with our SITRABI sister. In addition to training events, STITCH will participate in local community events co-sponsored by local worker justice organizations. You can find more infomation by contacting our local partners. MPOWER - Morton, MS Workers
Interfaith Network - Memphis, TN
More Information on our training programs for immigrant women. Click
above to read more about the trainings STITCH offers for unions and immigrant
women about their rights at work. Contact us for more information.
For more information on the Publication, click ere.
Sweatshop and the City STITCH
partnered with GoLeft.org to use the movie premier as a moment to ask
women to think more about the global sistershood that we share and what
responsibility we have to the women workers that produce our clothing
and often the food that we eat. Tips on Ethical Shopping and Actions You Can Take STITCH's Joint Blog, Including our Piece About Sex and the City The Maquila in Guatemala: More about Sweatshops Wal-Mart's Impact on Women Around the World Groups that work to Support Workers in Sweatshops Honest to Blog? Have you checked out the joint labor blog that includes STITICH? Click
Here to Check Out Our New Blog!
STITCH
Report on 2007
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Does STITCH's major programs include Training Exchanges, the Language School Delegation, and the Documentation Project. Click here to find out more about these projects. Interested in Ethical Shopping? Click
here for more information
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