Reverse Trick-or-Treating is a fun way to inform others about child labor and unfair conditions in the global production of cocoa while promoting positive alternatives and inspiring action.  While you are waiting for your Reverse Trick-or-Treating kit to arrive and planning out your Halloween costume, you can also take action by participating in our Fair Trade S'mores action this summer -- all the details are online here!  There are a number of aspects of this campaign you can get involved in:

Egypt

The Center for Trade Unions and Workers Services (CTUWS) recently released their fifth report analyzing the impact of the economic crisis on Egyptian workers.  The report monitors ongoing layoffs and ways the crisis is spreading to new sectors at the expense of workers.  There is also a table in the report that shows all of the recent major layoffs and how workers have responded including organizing protests and sit-ins.

South Korea

In addition to the work of students, ILRF and other anti-sweatshop organizations have been quite active in supporting workers.  ILRF helped introduce a shareholder resolution at Berkshire Hathaway’s meeting this year given that Berkshire is the parent company of Russell.  Another avenue utilized included ILRF and  several other organizations in filing a petition to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights concerning freedom of association violations within Russell’s supply chain.  ILRF has also continued to follow this issue as you can see in a

Unfortunately, the real world economic crisis has not (at least not yet) turned the tables in such a comical manner.  Immigrant workers, especially those classified as “unskilled,” are in fact hit harder by the economic crisis than their native-born and white collar counterparts.