Word: aip
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Seventeen other colleges and universities, including all the Ivy League schools, have also indicated their intentions to affiliate with the FLA, which was created in November by the Apparel Industry Partnership (AIP), a national coalition of groups working against sweatshops...
...PSLM member Daniel M. Hennefeld '99 said he disapproved of Harvard's decision to affiliate with the FLA, and was surprised by the University's willingness to associate itself with the AIP...
Even after agreeing to ensure fair wages for its workers--even in the face of strong national momentum toward a code--Harvard and the rest of the Ivy League are posed this week to adopt the toothless, industry-approved, Apparel Industry Task Force (AIP) code that includes none of these provisions. Phillips-Van Heusen, one of the main proponents of this pitiful code, closed the only unionized plant in Guatemala last December soon after that code was announced--a good indication of the behavior we can expect from factories adhering to the industry code...
When government funding was cut off, the Ed School and the AIP arranged for an annual $18,000 grant from the Ford Foundation. The grant was for a two-year period, ending in June...
...School has agreed to make up the sum when the foundation grant runs out, but that still leaves the AIP with an operating budget of $18,000, all of which goes to the part-time salary of its director, Dr. Bette Haskins, Begay says...