Fair Trade

Let’s cancel minimum wage jobs for a start. I did my fair share of it. I am humble now, ok? I studied for 6 years, and something stuck in, even from a subject I didn’t have high expectations from — from a Microeconomy class. The first time taking it, when…

By Tom Conway USW International President The Goodyear plant in Gadsden, Ala., was always a part of Cindy Beshears’ life. She attended her grandfather’s retirement party there as a child, worked two summers at the plant as a college student in the 1980s and accepted a full-time job on the…

THE TIRE COLOGNE ended last Thursday, having seen 12,000 trade visitors from 100 countries, 300 exhibiting companies and brands from 35 countries. …

El principal producto Fairtrade argentino es el vino: hay 4000 hectáreas plantadas en Mendoza y La Rioja. — El segundo sábado del mes de mayo se festeja el Día Internacional del Comercio Justo y durante todo el mes en diferentes partes del mundo se realizan actividades para dar a conocer el concepto y sumar a nuevos consumidores a este movimiento. En Argentina, la Coordinadora de Comercio Justo agrupa…

It was 5 am and I woke up in a small-ish city in India. I hurried in the morning light, making haste in the unfamiliar bathroom. I was there for the night after meeting a manufacturer of peace silk for my boutique. I was designing a collection of scarves and…

The coffee you choose can have a bigger impact than you know. If you are anything like me, you start your day with a cup of coffee. In fact, every day a staggering 1.6 billion cups are brewed worldwide. And because of this, over 125 million people rely on the…

Celebrating the Global Village on the 111th International Women’s Day There is comfort in rituals. One of my favorites is the Christmas Eve candlelight service, during which, for about an hour, it feels like peace on earth might be achievable. Such rituals span the world’s great faith traditions and indigenous…

By Tom Conway USW International President What Tom O’Shei remembers most about his visit to Mexico in 2019 is the determination he glimpsed in the hundreds of Mexican workers who paraded through the port city of Lázaro Cárdenas and stopped to pray at a monument honoring a pair of murdered…