Word: fla
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...have also offered our support, at least for the time being, to the Fair Labor Association (FLA). The FLA began as a cooperative union-management initiative, under the auspices of the Clinton administration, to devise a practical way to certify factories that followed acceptable codes of conduct. Labor later rejected the FLA, and we ourselves had--and still have--questions about whether FLA will ultimately be able to achieve effective enforcement of good codes of conduct. The FLA is not yet in business, but it has recruited a very distinguished pair of leaders: Charles Ruff, former White House Counsel, Watergate...
Neither the FLA nor the WRC is currently operational, but the FLA, with its year head start, has a more focused timetable...
...FLA must then select and train the independent monitors. Brown says he anticipates full-scale monitoring to begin by next year...
Activists say the FLA is moving too slowly, especially given its 18 months of operation. They say the newly created WRC is advancing at a more rapid pace...
...says he is still studying the WRC and the possibility of joining the organization is still open. But such a move would not necessarily mean a withdrawal from the FLA, Ryan says...