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Other efforts are being made in other quarters to this end. For example, this week a nonprofit endeavor known as the Fair Labor Association (FLA) urged universities to join in its efforts, and Harvard has agreed to do so. The FLA may or may not prove itself able to devise effective solutions, but we support its attempts even as we pursue other avenues. We don't know where answers will eventually be found, but we are determined to pursue these important questions as seriously as we can. Allan A. Ryan Jr. is an attorney in Harvard's Office of General...
PSLM was one of the principal organizers of the 250-person Rally for Justice held last Tuesday, at which the University announced its commitment to full public disclosure of factory locations. PSLM members are currently urging the University to withdraw from the Fair Labor Association (FLA), an organization that plans to monitor clothing factories worldwide...
PSLM members call this monitoring system weak and inadequate, and instead advocate the creation of a university-wide committee to deal with issues including as FLA affiliation and the anti-sweatshop policy...
...FLA provides an important service as it isnow," Durkee said...
Still, he said Princeton, like other schools,has created its own policy to supplement the FLA'sapproach to full disclosure. Durkee said he wasespecially concerned with the FLA's attention tothe living wage issue...