The expose of a sweatshop demonstrates the need for action (March 9). But action should not mean closing down sweatshops and depriving workers of their jobs. Instead, government should require its contractors to meet fair labor standards. Government should require contractors to disclose where their factories are located, the wages workers are paid and the conditions in which they labor. Businesses that operate sweatshops behind a veil of secrecy should not benefit from public contracts.

A positive action would be for Deval Patrick to join with the governors of Maine, New Jersey and Pennsylvania in the Governor’s Coalition for Sweatfree Procurement and Worker Rights.

Liana Foxvog,
Coordinator
Mass. Sweatfree Campaign Florence

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