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...million donation to the University of Oregon, and the company cancelled a multi-year, multi-million dollar apparel contract with the University of Michigan. The reason: both schools are affiliated with the human rights monitoring group the Workers Rights Consortium (WRC). Nike, a member of the Fair Labor Association (FLA)--a monitoring group backed by the government, several apparel manufacturers and 134 universities, including Harvard--accuses the WRC of being hostile toward corporations and setting unreasonable monitoring standards. While some of the company's complaints are valid, its actions are egregious...
...take that same laptop with the Wi-Fi wireless network card to the Austin Bergstrom Airport, in Austin, Texas. For a fee, you can connect to the Wi-Fi-compatible network there and roar out onto the Internet. Or go to any one of 30 hotels in Tampa, Fla., Phoenix, Ariz., and Austin and get online wirelessly from your room. By year's end, more than 1,000 hotels and 25 major airports in the U.S. are expected to offer this service; a dozen airports in Europe will also have it and be compatible. I'm told that a major...
...been clear that there was corporate domination [of the FLA]--I had just never heard him articulate it so blatantly," said PSLM member Anna M. Falicov...
...Brown said corporate involvement was necessary to produce significant change in the industry. He said he considered the decision by corporations to affiliate with the FLA's monitoring system more important than ensuring transparency to the public...
...After working for the postal service in St. Petersburg, Fla. since 1986, Lolita Dash has taken a medical leave because of the stress she has been under since she was told to cut her fingernails. The painting and decoration routine for her 5-inch thumbnails lasted...