• Whereas in 1999, GAP Inc., including GAP, Old Navy, and Banana republic, earned $1.1 billion in profits, yet GAP workers in Tehuacan make $0.28 per hour.
• Whereas workers say they need just $1.00 per hour to provide for their families.
• Whereas in the U.S., on the Pacific island of Saipan, the women in GAP sweatshops make only $3.05 an hour and often must pay exorbitant fees just to get their jobs and sign contracts that take away their basic rights.  GAP has yet to commit to a living wage.
• Whereas GAP's labor abuses oversees has also hurt workers in the United States.
• Whereas Donald Fisher the CEO of the GAP is the biggest campaign contributor to Mayor Brown.  He has given over $20,000 to Gray Davis, and has given $381,000 to candidates and PAC's between 95-99. He also helped write free trade policies like NAFTA and the WTO.  (I have a flyer that lists all of this.)
• Whereas Donald Fisher started the Committee on Jobs to oppose a Living Wage in San Francisco.
• Whereas this Committee has sent representatives to infiltrate other Living Wage Campaigns, like the one in Santa Monica.
• Whereas the Fisher family purchased 232,000 acres of Mendocino and Sonoma County redwood forest-land in July 1998, and has been "liquidating" these ancient trees since their purchase.

Therefore be it resolved that:

this body calls for its members to join with other labor organizations, community groups, environmental groups and concerned citizens to join in a vigil to "Close the GAP" ocuring at both the GAP at Market and Powell Streets and the GAP Headquarters at 1 Harrison Street and specifically:

this body calls for all of its members to inform themselves about "Close the GAP at www.gapsucks.org or the info line at 415.430.2198 ext.  1398

this body supports the following demands:

Stop all logging immediately; put all holdings in a conservation land trust, in which commercial logging will be completely prohibited until all threatened and endangered species have fully recovered in each watershed.

As part of the reparations for the damage they have done, establish and pay for a public oversight committee for each watershed that includes public-interest representatives, and employ local displaced timber workers and fisher people in ongoing watershed and forest restoration.

Settle the Saipan Lawsuit; 17 other companies have already agreed to ban the shadow contracts that make workers waive all their basic rights, reduce recruitment fees, stop union busting, pay workers owed overtime etc.  It's time for the GAP to do the same! (for more info see www.globalexchange.org/economy/corporations/saipan)

Include a Living Wage in GAP's Vendor Code of Conduct (see www.GAPInc.com)

Agree to independent monitoring in their factories

Support worker's rights to organize unions (The first GAP store on Ocean Ave was unionized.)

Disclose information about their factory locations and conditions