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Although the group has not yet secured funding, suggested sources include the AFL-CIO and socialist organizations such as the Haymarket People's Fund...
...full of school spirit. After arriving in the fall of 1997, he decorated his dorm room with posters of his school teams, cheered on the Wolverines at the Rose Bowl and proudly outfitted himself in Michigan sweatshirts and caps. Then last summer, during an internship with the AFL-CIO, he started to hear how Michigan and other colleges get their sportswear--by employing licensing companies that use overseas factories where garment workers toil long hours, often for pennies...
...many in the education community are questioning whether the wave of anti-sweatshop protest is an indigenous resurgence of campus activism or the handiwork of a powerful outside agitator--organized labor. Since he took over the AFL-CIO in 1995, John Sweeney has brought labor's cause to campus, pouring more than $3 million into internships and outreach programs meant to interest students in careers as union activists. Indeed, it was summer stints at unions that first alerted Romer-Friedman and other students to the sweatshop issue...
...manipulating students but motivating them," says the AFL-CIO's Sweeney. Either way, the outreach program has been a tactical masterstroke. "At this moment the sweatshop protest is definitely being carried on the backs of university students," says Charles Kernaghan, director of the National Labor Committee, one of several human-rights groups that are also counseling the students. "If a hundred students hold a protest, they get a page in the New York Times. If a hundred union people did that, they'd be locked...
According to a USAS statement, the AFL-CIO, the Union of Needletrades and Industrial Textiles Employees and the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility have all severed ties with the FLA. USAS has called for a national campaign against FLA because it says it is "a weak and insubstantial coverup for continued sweatshop abuses...