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...order to better ensure that apparel bearing the Harvard name is produced under quality working conditions, the University will affiliate itself with the Fair Labor Association (FLA), a new organization planning to monitor clothing factories around the world, a University official said yesterday...
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...
...announcement comes one week after the University said it would institute a "full disclosure" policy regarding the location of factories producing Harvard licensed apparel...
This week, Harvard students added their voices to the chorus heard at colleges and universities around the country protesting the manufacture of college insignia apparel in factories with sub-par labor conditions...
...Harvard, after a protest outside Tuesday's Faculty meeting, the University committed itself to the principle of "full disclosure" of factory locations from companies that manufacture apparel bearing the Harvard name...