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Today, Harvard’s top lawyer, Robert W. Iuliano ’83 and Harvard Students Against Sweatshops (HSAS) will meet to rehash an old issue: Whether Harvard should join the Workers’ Rights Consortium (WRC). After years of conducting research and presenting findings to the university, HSAS has made a solid case for WRC membership; Harvard’s continued stalling on the issue is unwarranted and unjustified. Sweatshop conditions should not be tolerated—much less profited from—by the University. Iuliano and University President Lawrence H. Summers, to whom Iuliano reports, should...
...Dissent: Consortium Doesn't Help Workers
...meeting is only the latest effort in a four year old campaign to convince Harvard to join the Workers’ Rights Consortium, a body charged with regulating working conditions in factories that manufacture collegiate merchandise, including products bearing the Harvard logo...
...hoodie, Harvard will be sitting on its hands. Despite broad public consensus against the appalling conditions in sweatshops, our administration still hasn’t taken the simple step that would ensure Harvard isn’t profiting off sweatshop labor—joining the Workers’ Rights Consortium...
...like those at Kukdong, New Era and Primo, how can people take Harvard seriously about human rights at all? Five years after Harvard began to negotiate with sweatshop activists, why has Harvard done so little? The solution is simple: become the 117th member of the Workers’ Rights Consortium. For students, it could mean the difference between pride and shame in what our university is doing. For workers, it could mean the difference between getting a paycheck and being tossed out on the street, families...