American Apparel makes t shirts, hoodies et al. They very much focus their marketing around the fact that they don’t use sweatshop labour, but rather all of their manufacturing is done in the US. I have more than one friend who uses American Apparel tshirts for their tshirt-requiring-projects on those grounds.

I guess I always assumed that “sweatshop free, made in the USA” meant “union made”. I guess they never actually said that, and I guess I was wrong.

More disturbing than their lack of a union is that they are accused of engaging in active union-busting tactics:

Hopefully this story will get around and they will have to defend themselves.

Every aspect of the production of our garments, from the knitting of the fabric to the photography of the product, is done in-house. By consolidating this entire process, we are able to pursue efficiencies that other companies cannot because of their overreliance on outsourcing.

In that case, they can hardly give the “we didn’t know what our subcontractors were up to” defense.