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After presenting a number of differences between the WRC and the Fair Labor Association (FLA)—which currently monitors the manufacture of Harvard merchandise—HSAS members left the meeting encouraged by the administration’s attitude, said HSAS member Emma S. Mackinnon ’05, who is also a Crimson editor...
Though in the past University officials have argued that the FLA is adequate, HSAS members have campaigned for the last four years to get Harvard to join the WRC as well...
...group believes that Harvard’s membership in the WRC would guarantee better collection and sharing of information about conditions in factories. Another benefit, according to HSAS, is that the WRC has no commercial ties to the companies it regulates, unlike the FLA...
...expect that Harvard shares our concern, and understand Harvard’s membership in the Fair Labor Association (FLA) as an effort by Harvard to address sweatshop abuses—though an inadequate effort,” HSAS said in a memo they shared at the meeting...
...proved itself a more effective monitor—becoming a member would make Harvard a leader in improving working conditions in college apparel production. Membership in the FLA alone is an insufficient position for Harvard to take: the FLA has not been able to address rights violations as reliably and promptly as the WRC. Harvard’s involvement with sweatshops is intolerable—the school must do all it can to ensure that its apparel is produced humanely and responsibly. Harvard must join...