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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...
...differences between the two monitors are marked. The WRC requires full disclosure of all factory locations, a living wage for all employees, surprise inspections by fully independent monitors and a governing board free of corporate influence. The FLA, in contrast, requires neither full disclosure nor a living wage, relies on announced inspections by corporate-approved monitors and allows corporate representatives to sit on its governing board. The WRC has been acclaimed by student groups and chided by big business, while the FLA has students on the picket line and corporate gurus sitting pretty...
...their intentions to open dialogue with apparel producers, indicating the organization's pragmatic desire to effect change through discourse while maintaining its principled stance that giving apparel producers a greater say does not entail giving them a seat on the administrative board. However, since the Nike events transpired, the FLA has merely taken another opportunity to demonstrate its corporate servitude and resistance to change, reiterating on April 26 that it could not commit to a policy of full disclosure and independent monitoring...
...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...
...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...