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Seamstress / stitcher

Blue Tin Production is a women of color apparel manufacturing workers co-operative working toward developing a global model for sustainability and labor in manufacturing.

We are hiring full-time seamstresses to join our studio in Chicago! 

 

REQUIREMENTS

– Minimum 5 years of experience in industrial apparel sewing

– Comfort operating, troubleshooting, and adjusting industrial manufacturing equipment, including but not limited to straight-stitch machines, sergers, and other machines and equipment

– Knowledge in general garment construction

– Detail oriented and organized

– Preferred but not required: experience in industrial cutting

– Preferred but not required: experience in pattern-making, sample-making, and/or luxury quality control standards

 

*please note: English language proficiency, childcare needs, and other presumed barriers are non-issues, as we provide on-site interpreters and childcare, support with transportation, etc as needed.

 

BENEFITS

We have a 12-month onboarding process. During this time benefits include payment (hourly) and a raise at month three that includes full healthcare. Upon full onboarding as a member of the co-operative, benefits include but are not limited to:

– Salaried with full benefits, including healthcare, dental, vision, mental health

– Paid vacation, sick days, and holidays

– Regular wellness, somatic, and educational workshops
 
– Ability to earn co-ownership and profit-sharing based on worker co-operative principles
 
– Paid professional development
 
– The opportunity to tangibly think through, imagine, build, and contribute to structural change within the fashion industry in a manner that can be replicated by garment workers globally
 
– Contributing to the development of new global standards of labor and sustainability, playing an essential role in creating, cultivating, and implementing studio-floor practices that shift industry-wide normalization of gender-based violence in factories on a structural level


TO APPLY

Please send an email to hello@bluetinproduction.com with “Seamstress Application” in the subject line to setup an interview. If a translator is needed, please note what language is preferred.