Word: fla
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Mackinnon asserted that Harvard’s membership in the WRC would not be mutually exclusive with its FLA affiliation, and that in recent years the FLA and WRC have worked jointly on a number of occasions...
Since its creation, however, the FLA has been repeatedly criticized by labor experts because of the influential position its 13 member companies, including Nike, Reebok and Polo Ralph Lauren, hold within the organization...
Though the original intention was to work with companies in a non-accusatory manner, independent labor experts have argued that this setup has prevented the FLA from achieving its goals...
...light of these issues, HSAS has argued that the FLA alone is not sufficient and that Harvard should also join the WRC, which is completely independent of the manufacturers...
...We’ve heard pretty compelling arguments from even the head of the FLA that it can’t supply monitoring both internally and externally in a reliable manner by itself, whereas the WRC is able to leverage a lot of power over companies quickly,” Mackinnon said...