USAS has been fighting steadily for workers' rights even when the issue wasn't front-page news--and they're helping spearhead a new movement for economic justice.
Instead of boycotting companies that make goods in sweatshops, student labor activists are boosting Alta Gracia, a factory that pays a living wage--and lets workers unionize.
Christopher Moraff, In These Times. January 24, 2007.
For more than a decade, the Federal Prison Industries has been forcing inmates to handle toxic "e-waste" containing arsenic, mercury, lead and other cancer-causing chemicals.