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Harvard requires that all companies that manufacture its apparel pay the University a 7.5 percent royalty...
BLOOD, SWEAT AND TEARS We've long known that football fans can go gaga over their NFL heroes. And now, for a pretty penny, they can own sports equipment and apparel that their idols used or wore, with the proceeds going to charity. On the Dallas Cowboys' website, fans can purchase keepsakes such as Emmitt Smith's game-worn shoes for $999.99 a pair or Deion Sanders' practice jersey for $699.99. Particularly prized are jerseys with stains or traces of blood. When the Denver Broncos offered such macho-mentos, hard-core fans snapped them...
...changed from "Just do it!" to "Just do it our way, or else!" In a disturbing display of industrial and financial power, Nike Chair Phil Knight recently reneged on a promised $30 million donation to the University of Oregon, and the company cancelled a multi-year, multi-million dollar apparel contract with the University of Michigan. The reason: both schools are affiliated with the human rights monitoring group the Workers Rights Consortium (WRC). Nike, a member of the Fair Labor Association (FLA)--a monitoring group backed by the government, several apparel manufacturers and 134 universities, including Harvard--accuses...
...unreasonable to demand that corporations pay a living wage without defining what that living wage is. Second, in order for any monitoring group to be successful, it requires corporate input. Sweatshop monitoring exists to provide the public with full and accurate information about the conditions under which apparel is being manufactured, thereby giving consumers the tools they need to make informed decisions about what to buy. Yet, the ultimate end of sweatshop monitoring is to induce changes in the working conditions of substandard factories, and reality dictates that accomplishing this goal requires setting clear standards and may necessitate seeking input...
These complaints have not fallen on deaf ears. On April 28 several universities affiliated with the WRC announced their intentions to open dialogue with apparel producers, indicating the organization's pragmatic desire to effect change through discourse while maintaining its principled stance that giving apparel producers a greater say does not entail giving them a seat on the administrative board. However, since the Nike events transpired, the FLA has merely taken another opportunity to demonstrate its corporate servitude and resistance to change, reiterating on April 26 that it could not commit to a policy of full disclosure and independent monitoring...