GAP Boycott in New Mexico State
We are invited people to attend and protest the GAP Annual shareholders meeting in
Albuquerque, to be held Friday, May 10 2002.
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Shareholders Meeting May 10th at Hyatt in downtown Albuquerque
Press Conference at 1 P.M. following the meeting
Local Coordinator Pay Hynes – Sweatshop Free Albuquerque
http://www.sweatshopfreeabq.org/ 505-839-4058
Las Cruces Coordinators USAS of NMSU http://cbae.nmsu.edu/~dboje/usas/
o USAS of NMSU, President Teresa Bolents namrie@hotmail.com 6456951
o Vice President Solisa Zamora soli_pop@hotmail.com 645-6951
Background on the GAP Call for Protest Action
Gap Inc., which also owns Old Navy, Banana Republic, GapKids and
babyGap, is the largest clothing company in the U.S. Gap profits more
from the global sweatshop system than any other clothing company,
making $13.7 billion in 2000. Gap apparel is produced in over 1000 sites
throughout Asia, Latin America and Africa. Numerous Gap sweatshops
have been exposed, including sites in Indonesia, El Salvador, Cambodia
and the U.S. territory of Saipan. Unlike other retailers, the Gap has refused
to settle a lawsuit that would clean up its sweatshops in Saipan. Source http://www.behindthelabel.org/
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Kang Yi Gap workers in China slave 96 hour weeks for 14 cents per hour.
Nike and GAP and Global Alliance for Workers and Communities. Nike teamed up
with the GAP (another company which has been heavily criticized for using sweatshops)
and the International Youth Foundation to form the Global Alliance for Workers and
Communities. http://www.theglobalalliance.com/ Global Alliance is a high-priced
consulting firm that does “Junk Science” studies that Nike and GAP can purchase as
fodder for their public relations spectacles.
NEW MEXICO CONTACTS
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David M. Boje, Ph.D. Las Cruces, New Mexico 404-532-1693 dboje@nmsu.edu
Faculty Advisor for United Students Against Sweatshops of New Mexico State
University (USAS of NMSU). http://cbae.nmsu.edu/~dboje/ and
http://cbae.nmsu.edu/~dboje/usas/
Hannah-Leigh Bull Albuquerque New Mexico 505-877-7712
stopgapnow@yahoo.com
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Sweatshop Free Albuquerque Coalition http://www.sweatshopfreeabq.org/
Sweatshop-Free Albuquerque P.O. Box 4531 Albuquerque, New Mexico 87196
Contact us at (505) 839-4058 Pat Hynes
Sweatshop Free Albuquerque
 Program - "Child Labor in the Global Economy"with city counselors in their
efforts to stop the purchase of goods made under sweatshop conditions.
 On October 5, 1999, the Albuquerque City Council passed an anti-sweatshop
memorial pledging not to award contracts to companies that allow sweatshop
practices.
GAP RESOURCE INFO
Gap Resource Center http://www.nlcnet.org/resources/gap.htm where you will find:
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Behind Closed Doors: The Workers Who Make Our Clothes (October 1998)
Zoned for Slavery; the Child Behind the Label (Video) (1995)
The U.S. in Haiti; How To Get Rich on 11¢ an Hour (1995)
Gap Returns to El Salvador—Agrees to Independent Monitoring (Dec. 16, 1995)
The “Authentic Gap”: How Would You Like Your Daughter To Work for the
Gap? (Dec. 1995)
Two Leading Human Rights Groups Blast the Gap Cover-Up in El Salvador (Oct.
1995)
New York Times Articles by Bob Herbert reporting on the Gap:
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In Deep Denial (October 13, 1995)
Not a Living Wage (October 9, 1995)
Buying Clothes Without Exploiting Children (August 4, 1995)
Sweatshop Beneficiaries (July 25, 1995)
A Sweatshop Victory (Dec. 22, 1995) Children of the Dark Ages
Picketing Gap for Redwood forest destruction
http://www.elksoft.com/gwa/recent/picketgap.html
Worker Rights in the Americas [El Salvador]? A Rare Inside Glimpse: Suppressed
USAID-funded investigation documents systematic denial of rights and "abject poverty"
wages of eighty-five thousand maquila workers, mostly young women sewing garments
for Nike, Jordan, Adidas, Gap, Ohio State, Duke, University of Michigan, Georgetown,
Kohl's, Wal-Mart and Elderwear school uniforms. (National Labor Committee, May
2001) http://www.nlcnet.org/elsalvador/0401/index.htm
See Tainan Factory (Gap in el Salvador)
http://www.nlcnet.org/elsalvador/0401/tainan.htm
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Mandatory pregnancy tests. Women testing positive are immediately fired.
Forced overtime; 11-hour shifts.
Workers paid 64 cents for each pair of $24.99 GAP pants they sew.
Sixty-cent-an-hour wage meets less than one-third of the cost of living; workers
are shortchanged of even this below-subsistence wage.
Workers need permission to drink water or go to the bathroom.
Constant pressure and shouting at the women to work faster.
Limited access to health care.
GAP’s Code of Conduct not posted and totally unknown to the workers.
Total denial of the right to organize.
Mansalex (Gap/Old Navy) http://www.nlcnet.org/elsalvador/0401/mansalex.htm workers
paid just 11.6 cents for each $12.99 GAP T-shirt they sew:
Newtex Factory (Gap/Old Navy) http://www.nlcnet.org/elsalvador/0401/newtex.htm The
workers are paid just the minimum wage of 60 cents an hour, which meets less than onethird of the cost of living.
Maquila Solidarity http://www.maquilasolidarity.org/resources/update/Vol301.htm