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SWEATSHOP FREE SPORTS

New from Fair Trade Sports—these sweatshop-free sports balls are the first non-agricultural product in the US to be certified as Fair Trade. Click here to order.

Visit the FAIR TRADE SPORTS website for retail orders of equipment such as training balls and competition-quality soccer balls, rugby balls and indoor volleyballs. Purchasing Fair Trade balls ensures fair wages and healthy working conditions for adult workers. Owner Scott James also writes lively blog entries on topics such as the air bladders in sports balls, fair trade rubber tapping and corporate standards for social and environmental performance. FAIR TRADE SPORTS will donate 10% of each sale generated through this Web site to the LRC so that we can continue our work of promoting Fair Trade.

For wholesale-rate bulk orders, click here for a FAIR TRADE SPORTS wholesale price sheet (PDF). Then place your order here.

BACKGROUND: ANTI-SWEATSHOP SPORTS EQUIPMENT LAW
	Guilderland High School students vow to celebrate a legislative victory by adding sweatfree sports equipment to their district's sweatshop free purchasing policy.

A law signed on September 22, 2003 gave New York state public school districts and public colleges authority to refuse to buy sports equipment from companies that don't promise to meet fair labor standards.

The law removed barriers to "sweatfree" purchasing of sports equipment by public schools, K through post-graduate. School boards as well as State University of New York (SUNY), City University of New York (CUNY) and community college administrators are now able to require certification that apparel and sports equipment are manufactured according to fair labor standards without child labor. The bill extends anti-sweatshop laws approved in 2001 and 2002. To see the text of the sports equipment law (Chapter 562 of the Laws of 2003), click here.

Last Updated:09/26/2008
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