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...have also drawn up a code of conduct, reflecting considerable input from Harvard students, designed to ensure that workers are paid adequately, allowed to organize without fear of reprisal and treated fairly. We have notified our licensees that the code will become part of our overall licensing policy and must be honored by any licensee--including its subcontractors who actually own the factories--who wants to do business with Harvard...
...have also offered our support, at least for the time being, to the Fair Labor Association (FLA). The FLA began as a cooperative union-management initiative, under the auspices of the Clinton administration, to devise a practical way to certify factories that followed acceptable codes of conduct. Labor later rejected the FLA, and we ourselves had--and still have--questions about whether FLA will ultimately be able to achieve effective enforcement of good codes of conduct. The FLA is not yet in business, but it has recruited a very distinguished pair of leaders: Charles Ruff, former White House Counsel, Watergate...
Students and others have urged that universities join the Worker Rights Consortium (WRC), an organization that, in its words, intends to "receive and verify worker complaints of abuses and violations" of codes of conduct and "coordinate proactive investigations" of working conditions with local human rights organizations. It does not intend to conduct monitoring. It will have an organizing meeting in April, at which time it will select its governing board and advisory council and "deliberate on programmatic development...
...that he has the will and self-determination to actually change his life for the better. Most people in life don't get second chances, and Strawberry has had one too many. By allowing him to remain a part of the game, Major League Baseball is implicitly condoning his conduct. It is hardly an example that America's favorite pastime should...
...Bank of England exerted its influence to have an outsider, Ian Hay Davison, named chief executive officer in 1983. But the real power remained with chairman Green, a richly corrupt official who in 1986 was found guilty by a tribunal of Lloyd's members of "gross negligence" and "discreditable conduct." Davison lasted only two years as Lloyd's CEO, and later published a bitter book describing the experience...