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...idea Noffsinger has been championing is rapidly catching on across the country, from rural Tennessee to South Central Los Angeles. The VA Medical Center in Bay Pines, Fla., introduced group appointments in the summer of 2002 as a way to combat a backlog of 17,000 patients waiting to be inducted into its primary-care system. Today that waiting list hovers at about 100, and the group model is being extended to Veterans Health Administration centers around the country. Endocrinologist David Shewmon started group appointments in his Wooster, Ohio, practice last January and has reduced the wait time...
Harvard is already a member of the Fair Labor Association (FLA), an alternative sweatshop-monitoring group, but FLA membership has never been a fair substitute for membership in the WRC. As HSAS has persistently argued to Harvard, the FLA is intimately tied to the corporations it monitors, and many of those companies have powerful seats on the FLA’s board—allowing them to prevent and delay investigations and follow-up. The actual monitors often have business ties to the companies they are supposed to investigate objectively. The FLA also frequently relies on so-called...
...strong record of identifying abuses, promptly performing thorough investigations and resolving the problems. An independent group, not subject to the control of the companies it oversees, the WRC can credibly threaten to cut University contracts with companies that do not improve, generating proactive change when others, including the FLA...
...factory in Buffalo, N.Y., the WRC investigated and confirmed reports that workers were fired for trying to unionize. After negotiations with the factory management failed, WRC member schools threatened to cut their contracts if conditions at the factory didn’t improve. The FLA, which had done its own investigation only after the WRC started theirs, stalled on threatening to cut contracts until after the WRC had taken action. The dispute was eventually resolved—workers kept their jobs, the brands kept production where it was and the union was recognized—because the WRC took...
...produces clothing for schools including Harvard, the same story is playing out again. Last spring, the WRC heard complaints of anti-union blacklisting, health and safety violations and other problems that violate its code of conduct; the WRC did a full investigation and publicized their findings. The FLA started an investigation only after the WRC went in, and never publicized what they found. And now, the WRC is leading the effort toward resolution...