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Amid a flurry of labor activism at Harvard and across the country, the Undergraduate Council voted overwhelmingly last night to recommend that Harvard withdraw from the Fair Labor Association (FLA) and join the Workers Rights Consortium...
Both organizations are designed to monitor overseas sweatshops, but members of the Progressive Student Labor Movement (PSLM), the sponsors of the bill, said the FLA is too tied to corporate interests to be effective...
Over the past week, students have staged a series of demonstrations across the country in opposition to the FLA. Protesters at the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Michigan and the University of Wisconsin took over administrative buildings, and PSLM briefly occupied Mass Hall on Thursday to protest the organization...
...tracks Duraflame's historical sales against weather data for the same time period and then makes projections from long-range weather forecasts. The formula is a lot more complex than the simple deduction that cold weather equals sales. Regional buying habits, for example, are taken into account. In Jacksonville, Fla., fire logs sell when temperatures dip into the 60s. In San Francisco, people buy when it's rainy. And in hardy Chicago, the mercury has to drop below 39[degrees]F for folks to gather round the hearth. "Before, it was tough to know whether a shift of 4[degrees...
Protesters at Harvard and across the country are demanding that universities leave the Fair Labor Association (FLA) and join the Workers' Rights Consortium (WRC). Both organizations are designed to monitor conditions in overseas factories manufacturing collegiate apparel, but activists charge that the FLA is too closely tied to corporate interests to be effective...