Word: appareled
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...they know the kind of trade advertised as "free trade" comes at a tremendous price. And it is not the corporations who will pay. For the past two years, the Progressive Student Labor Movement's (PSLM) anti-sweatshop campaign has fought to turn Harvard and its apparel licensing from an appendage of corporate America into a weapon against globalization without representation--the WTO's brand of trade. Because the sweatshirts, baseball caps and T-shirts that bear our schools' names are made in sweatshops across the globe, we can fight international injustice where we live, and bring attention...
...countries are in rebellion against any attempt to enforce them - for the simple reason that cheap labor is all many of them have to offer in the world economy, and enforcing minimum standards may actually destroy hundreds of thousands of jobs in the developing world. Why would a U.S. apparel manufacturer have its wares manufactured in China if it had to pay American-level wages? So just as what's good for business isn't always good for all of society, what's good for the American worker isn't always good for the Indonesian worker...
...event came one day after Champion Products, the University's largest licensed manufacturer, agreed to disclose the locations of all factories producing Harvard apparel. It occurred on the same day that custodial union Local 254 voted on a contract that included substantial wage increases...
Piles of a Harvard t-shirt made by Champion, Harvard's largest apparel producer, sit folded near the back of the Coop clothing shop. A tag says the shirt is made in Mexico...
...Harvard waits for its apparel manufacturers to spill their beans, it is already preparing for the next step--monitoring. At issue is how to effectively keep tabs on conditions, while still giving companies their privacy...