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HomeMy WebLinkAbout1997-06-09 97-267 RESOLVECOUNCH, ACTION Item No 91-2 II Date: 6-9-97 ItentSubjecb RESOLVE, Declaring that Clothes for Sales Is our Community Should be Manufactured In Accordance with Established International Codes of Corporate Conduct Responsible Department City Council Commentary: The munched Resolve appears an the agendathrough the efforts of the Bangor Clean Clothes Campaign. It declares the views of flus Council that clothes for sale in our community should be manufactured in accordance with established international codes of corporate conduct such as those in the United Nation's "Universal Declaration of Human Rit;W and various conventions adopted by the International Labor Organization. The attached Resolve has been unnerved by the Municipal Operations Committee which recommends your approval. Representatives ofthe Clean Clothes Campaign wilt be present on Monday, evening to address the Cowed and answer any questions you may have. (�iVl,.,MJrn�,aa'KaiBa.wrtb�a7�e4co.ywi+.P...eV1M'l9o`bYl.Wdtw.�a 1r^�l WO.�n�u.Wa#p.ayal. Q Docinu meat H ead Manaers Cemmnre:i1-w3a K tt�ul city Manage Associated Information: Resolve Budget Apprnal: Finance Drector Legal Approval: CitySo i r Introduced for T Passage _ First Reading PW—Of— Referral age—ofReferral 97-267 Arstg,,d co C01ae1107 Sullivan June 9, 1997 CITY OF BANGOR (TITLE.)¢Splbe,—...ltecladne.Wa[&AWlxwt.far.Sales.i�.eco_Satmmxnia.S.daN!A.b�.............. MagyLgGL=Ain,Accorda with EsWblishedkn afional C.rrdesof CoBorate Conduct By she City Cauaeil or the City ofBunyor. MB LVED, WHEREAS, Bangor is a commuaitY that upholds the dignity of every human being, promotes basic human rights, and supports social and economic justice; and WHEREAS, Bangor is a community that believes jobs should fairly compensate hard work with a living wage, that health and safety of working laconic should be protected, and that all forms ofunhmful discrimination and abuse should not be tolerated; and WHEREAS, many of the garments currently produced far Bangor markets are manufactured is sweatshop conditions characterized by poverty wages, forced overtime, child labor, an unsafe and wealthy workplace, and often abusive working conditions; and WHEREAS, established international standards for the ethical manufacture of clothes a re routinely violated by many apparel makers who supply our community's retail stores; and WHEREAS, sweatshops have been and continue to be adirect cause ofjob loss and depressed wages for Maine citizervs, whose companies relocate firr cheap labor, or threaten plant closings to force lower wages coal contract wncesvova; and WHEREAS, citizens who shop in Bangor have a right to expect that items for sale are produced under conditions consistent with am community values; and WHEREAS, the City of Bangor can make a significant contribution to the campaigns against sweatshop manufacturing of clothing by supporting the enforcement of established ethical codes of corporate conduct; and WHEREAS, there exists widespread popular support in the greater Bangor area for the principle that clothes sold in Bangor ought to he made under ethical conditions of production; IN CITY COUNCIL 9]-36] June 9, 1997 Passed vote: 9 yea R E S O L V E Councilors voting yes: Aube, Baldacci, Blanchette, Farnham, Leen, Soucy, Sullivan, Tyler 6 woodcock netlarine that Clotbea for sales in our Cocube city Should be Manufactured i Accordance with Established International Codes of COrpOYate Conduct 97-267 NOW, THEREFORE, WE THC BANGOR CITY COUNCIL, declare that all clothes for sale m our community, produced in the U.S. or abroad, should be manufactured in accordance with established international codes of corporate wnduct regarding wages, workplace health andl safety, forced labor, child labor, and Leedom of association, as embodied in United Nations (U.N.) and International Labor Orgerdzation (I.L.O.) conventions. Statement of P� The supporting standards for this Resolution include: the International Labor Organization's Convention on the Rights of the Child (Article 32. 1), I.L.O. Conventions Section 29, Addle 2, Section 105, Article 1, Section 87, Article 2, and Section 98, Article 1; the United Nations Draft Declaration on Gender Equity (paragraph 139), the U.N. General Assembly Universal Declaration of Human Rights (Article 4, 5, 23, 1, Z3.3,23.4, and 24).