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Students gathered yesterday afternoon on Yale's Beinecke Plaza to urge the administration to withdraw from the Fair Labor Association (FLA) and join the Workers Rights Consortium...
...hundreds of executives from Britain, France, Italy, Russia, China and Canada. Lured by the country's nearly $12 billion in annual oil revenue, they've flocked to Tripoli's few good hotels looking for deals--big ones. One of many companies on the ground is Airbus, the European aircraft consortium, which is primed to sell 24 passenger jets worth at least $1.5 billion to Libya's national carrier. That kind of uncontested sale does not sit well in Seattle, where Boeing is based...
...Harvard Students Against Sweatshops (HSAS), a campaign of the Progressive Students Labor Movement, believes Harvard made a serious mistake when it signed with the attractively misnamed Fair Labor Association (FLA) rather than the Workers' Rights Consortium (WRC). The WRC is a third-party industry monitoring group with no ties to the industries it investigates while the FLA's governing board is dominated by these industries. Harvard's decision to sign with the FLA suggests that, while Harvard has formally committed in principle to fight sweatshop production of apparel and other insignia goods, it has not yet effectively embraced this commitment...
...history came to an end Friday when members of the Society of Professional Engineering Employees in Aerospace reached a tentative agreement with aerospace giant Boeing over wages and benefits. The settlement, described by analysts as "generous" to the union, highlights both increasing competition for Boeing from the European aircraft consortium, Airbus, and a general corporate love affair with stock prices that appears to have pushed the issue of corporate costs into the background...
...York City-based group comprising rappers Priest, Beans and Sayyid along with producer Earl Blaize, the Consortium makes music that could best be described as art-school hip-hop. The free-flowing lyrics on this album are inspired by poetry slams; the rhythms are stripped-down and direct, keeping the focus on the words. These songs are, by turns, grandly prophetic, perversely abstract and straight-up street. Far from a tragic epilogue, this is a welcome addition to the growing canon of outsider...