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UH SAS was founded by Timothy J. O’Brien in June 2007. The group is run by consensus.

CONTACT email us at uhusas (at) gmail (dot) com or you can use the old fashioned way and give us a jingle at 832.771.7263.

Graphic Design Thanks to Glenn Wurst for designing the header for this blog.

MISSION STATEMENT Our mission is to get the university to sign on to the Designated Suppliers Program. The DSP is a procurement process proposed by the Worker Rights Consortium and the United Students Against Sweatshops. It is a system for protecting the rights of workers and only applies to the university logo apparel production of licensee companies. The DSP applies only to those production facilities where products are sewn and/or assembled.

The other main tenant of our mission statement is for all campus workers, whether they are custodians, food service workers, teaching assistants or adjunct faculty to be paid a living wage and to be treated with dignity and respect by the University.

In October 2008 we got the University to adopt a code of conduct for companies that license the University name and logos. The university affiliated with Worker Rights Consortium The WRC is a third party independent monitoring body made up of students, administrators and labor experts. They conduct on site inspections all over the world and publish their findings on their website. They act as an enforcement mechanism for codes of conduct for University suppliers. This means that the UH licensees must go by the code of conduct the university adopted.

Also we want the University to cut their contract with Coca Cola because of the company’s terrible human rights and environmental record.

LEARN ABOUT THE ISSUE Check out out powerpoint that explains about the apparel industry, globalization, the Worker Rights Consortium, The “Fair Labor Association” and the Designated Supplier Program. It’s here: dsp-and-wrc

SISTER GROUP

Be sure to check out our sister group UH Students for Fair Trade. They can be reached at uhfairtrade (at) gmail (dot) com and on the web at UH Students for Fair Trade. The UH Students for Fair Trade group was founded in February 2006. Read their detailed history on their website.