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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...

Author: By Allan A. Ryan jr., | Title: Harvard's Take on Sweatshops | 3/1/2000 | See Source »

...largest anti-sweatshop demonstrations to date, about 300 to 400 Yale University students rallied yesterday to demand that their administration withdraw from the Fair Labor Association (FLA) and join the Workers Rights Consortium...

Author: By Robert K. Silverman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Hundreds at Yale Rally To Protest Labor Policy | 3/1/2000 | See Source »

...idea for a distance learning consortium stems from a Yale Corporation visit to Stanford's campus this past fall, when Yale University President Richard C. Levin talked to Stanford University President Gerhard Casper, the source said...

Author: By Vasugi V. Ganeshananthan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Opts Out of Distance Learning Talks | 2/29/2000 | See Source »

...protesters were demanding that their schools withdraw from the Fair Labor Association (FLA) and join the Workers Rights Consortium...

Author: By Robert K. Silverman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Students Stage Sweatshop Protests at Colleges Nationwide | 2/29/2000 | See Source »

Amid a flurry of labor activism at Harvard and across the country, the Undergraduate Council voted overwhelmingly last night to recommend that Harvard withdraw from the Fair Labor Association (FLA) and join the Workers Rights Consortium...

Author: By Robert K. Silverman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: PSLM Gets Support From Council to Persuade Harvard to Exit the FLA | 2/22/2000 | See Source »

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