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Animal
Rights Issues Business Profiles
Environmental
Issues Other
Sweatshop Issue
Animal Rights Issues
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Animal Rights and Abuse:
- Some info on the conditions of life for some dogs
who run the
Iditarod, and a list of
individuals/corporations that support the
Iditarod. Eddie Bauer is one of
them.
Eddie Bauer Bomber
Jacket Bombed - 1999:
-Why some animal protectionists got mad and how Eddie Bauer
responded.
Eddie Bauer Sponsorship of
Iditarod Musher:
- A site from Eddie Bauer showing their sponsorship
of an Iditarod
musher. Some animal rights activists
feel that the Iditarod is an
abuse to the dogs who run it.
End the Suffering of Dogs in the
Iditarod:
- Some info from PETA.com. Eddie Bauer supports an
Iditarod
musher.
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Buisness Profiles
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Responsible Shopper
Profile:
- Read general info about the company, see what they have been
criticized and praised for, and
who owns them.
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Environmental Issues
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Executive Sims honors
Eddie Bauer:
- A February 2001 King County News Release about
some of the things
Eddie Bauer does to protect the
environment.
Growing Interest in Organic
Cotton -1998:
- An article about organic cotton, mentions how
Eddie Bauer sent
someone to investigate. Hey
that's a start!
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Other Issues
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A Cornucopia of Information
the Media Ignores:
-The second section of this page gives a brief
overview of Eddie
Bauer's use of sweatshop
labor in the prisons of the U.S.
Eddie
Bauer's Returned Clothing Policy - Feb. 2001:
- Scroll almost to the bottom of this
page to see what Eddie Bauer
does with slightly or
majorly damaged clothing that is returned by
customers.
Eddie Bauer Eliminates
40 Jobs at Redmond Headquarters:
- A 2000 article from FreeRepublic.com.
Eddie
Bauer, Landlord Battle:
- An Augst 1999 article about Eddie Bauer and
their landlord in Berkely.
Education and Training:
- Information from the EddieBauer.com site on what
Eddie Bauer does
in the field of education.
Layoffs hit Eddie
Bauer - 2001:
- An article from the Seattle PI.
Live-In Sweatshops:
- A section from a 1997 Seattle P-I on Eddie
Bauer's use of sweatshop
prison labor in Washington
State. Scroll a bit down to read.
Look
for that Prison Label:
- An article about sweatshop labor in U.S. prisons.
The article
mentions Eddie Bauer toward the
bottom.
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Sweatshop Issue
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A Cornucopia of Information
the Media Ignores:
-The second section of this page gives a brief overview of
Eddie
Bauer's use of sweatshop
labor in the prisons of the U.S.
Behind Brand Names:
- A radio show put into text form. The speakers
tell of some events
that occured in
sweatshops, some of which involve Eddie Bauer.
Central American Free
Trade Zones Exploit Girls:
- Excerpts from a New York Times article, about two
girls who worked
in Central American sweatshops.
Judith Viera worked in one that
made Eddie Bauer garments.
Central American
Women Risk Jobs to Denounce Sweatshops:
- A reporter from Flashpoint! Electronic Magazine
vists some
sweatshops and talks to the women who
work in them. Not all of the
factories were associated with Eddie
Bauer, but some were.
Codes of Conduct and
Carmelita:
- Information on a sweatshop in the Philipines
which made clothes for
Eddie Bauer. From Sweatshop
Watch.
Evergreen
Industries:
- Information about a factory in the capitol of El
Salvador that makes
(or made) clothes for Eddie Bauer.
Evergreen Industries I -
1999:
- A summary of inspection findings of the factory
by Verite, an
independant monitoring agency.
Guerilla Action at
Eddie Bauer - 1996:
- Scroll three articles down to read about how some
activists
relabeled hundreds of garments at
an Eddie bauer store in protest
to their purchasing from a known
sweatshop in El Salvador.
Indonesia:
Union Members Fired - 1999:
- How workers who tried to join a union in an
Indonesian factory
(producing clothes for Eddie
Bauer and others) were fired.
Indonesian
Workers' Jobs on the Line- Dec. 1999:
- A bit of info on this factory from which Eddie
Bauer purchases some
of its clothing.
Live-In Sweatshops:
- A section from a 1997 Seattle P-I on Eddie
Bauer's use of sweatshop
prison labor in Washington
State. Scroll a bit down to read.
Look
for that Prison Label:
- An article about sweatshop labor in U.S. prisons.
The article
mentions Eddie Bauer toward the
bottom.
Santa's Little
Sweatshop:
- An article in the Albion Monitor, mostly about a
sweatshop in
Honduras which was revealed as
making Kathie Lee Gifford's line
of clothing. The factory also
made clothing for Eddie Bauer so some
information may apply.
Sweatshop Labor
in El Salvador:
-Scroll past the first article (in German) to a
reprinted 1996 article from
the NACLA Report on the Americas (about
halfway down). This article
is mostly quotes from a worker there.
Taking
on the Sweatshops:
- An edited version of a New York Times Article
(June 1998). Includes
quotes from Judith Viera, a worker in a
sweatshop that made
clothing for Eddie Bauer.
The
Global Sweatshop Economy:
- Scroll down to read about Adela Augustin, who
tried to form a union
at a Guatemalan factory which produced
for Eddie Bauer, and was
stabbed and beaten for it.
The Guy Who Made
Kathie Lee Cry:
- Information about sweatshop labor in general, as well
as info on the
sweatshop in which Kathie Lee Gifford and
Eddie Bauer clothing was
made.
Threadbare
Existence - 2000:
- Some info about sweatshops in L.A., one of which
makes garments
for Eddie Bauer.
Three Apparel
companies Added to Trendsetters - 1997:
- A press release from the U.S. Department of
Labor. I would tend to
think that this list is pretty
much useless, as most of the companies
on it have been known to work in
sweatshops both before, after and
probably during the time of this
publication.
Victory for Los Angeles
Garment Workers - 2000:
- Workers in a Los Angeles factory (sweatshop?)
sewed clothes for
Eddie Bauer and other companies, but
didn't receive proper wages.
They sued and won.
Women in the Factories of
the World - 1999:
- Scroll down just a bit to see what Judith of El
Salvador has to say
about her workplace, where she made
garments for Eddie Bauer,
among others.
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