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- Download the Buy Right Action Guide
You can also order a paper copy by filling in the form at the bottom of this page. Each guide costs us nearly £10 to produce, so please also give a donation.
Download The Pledge
Download A Sample Buy Right Policy
Download A Sample Buy Right Petition
Download The “I’d Rather Go Naked…” Stencil (originally made for the Week of Naked Action)
Promote the Buy Right Campaign
Download The Buy Right Poster
Download The Buy Right Bumper Sticker
Top Secret Tip: Email Jim for a Top Secret United Students Against Sweatshops Guide to Taking Action on Campus
The Buy Right Motion
You can bring a motion to your student union in support of joining the Worker Rights Consortium, which means that there will be a direct link between the university, the students and the people who make all the clothes bought and sold at that university. They will monitor the supply chain so that your university can find out about and take action on violations of human rights by their clothing suppliers.
You can download and adapt one of the sample Buy Right Motions that have already been sucessfully passed at other universities:
The University of UEA’s Buy Right motion (page 39)
You don’t need to wait for an AGM to bring a motion. You could simply ask someone on the student council at your union to bring it for you. Email Jim for more details.
Support the Buy Right NUS motion
Vice President for Society and Citizenship at the NUS Susan Nash is tabling a policy recommendation (number 707) at the NUS Conference in support of ethical procurement, and the Buy Right campaign. Ask your student union delegates to support the motion to take the campaign to the national level. Read page 54 of this document for the motion
Resources
DfID White Paper, 2009, Building Our Common Future which advocates using procurement to aid sustainable development and promotes more buying of Fairtrade products
Buy Fair Handbook for Procurement Managers that want to buy more Fairtrade, and not just in food and drink!
DEFRA Sustainable Procurement Strategy 2005 says that the government wants Britain to be the lead country in Europe on sustainable procurement by 2009.
Links
Talk to the experts, at the Sustainable Procurement Centre of Excellence, a new project funded by the government, aimed at
make demonstrable changes to the way HEIs embed sustainable procurement into their standard procedures, practices and policies
