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Today begins a new era in the apparel industry.
After many months of hard work and serious deliberations, leaders from
the apparel and footwear industry, human rights organizations, consumer groups
and worker advocates have responded in cutting-edge fashion to the challenge
that President Clinton posed in 1996, when he launched the Apparel Industry
Partnership to combat labor abuses in the United States and abroad and to let
consumers know which companies are participating in the process.
The preliminary agreement reached Monday by the members of the Apparel
Industry Partnership brings us so much closer to making real and lasting change
in this industry, and to relegate garment sweatshops from today's headlines
into tomorrow's history books. The agreement represents an historic partnership
between apparel and footwear companies, human rights groups and others who have
agreed for the very first time to work together as equal partners to make
significant improvements in labor conditions in garment factories across the
United States and around the world.
I applaud the members of the Apparel Industry Partnership for their
tenacity and fine work, and encourage others in the garment industry to join
with them in this critical and ground breaking effort.
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