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Along with the national United Students Against Sweatshops (USAS), PSLM has charged that the FLA has a poor monitoring system, and that it has a policy which lets the group notify companies of upcoming inspections...
...FLA was created last November by the Apparel Industries Partnership, a national coalition against sweatshops, and is still in its formative stages...
According to a USAS statement, the AFL-CIO, the Union of Needletrades and Industrial Textiles Employees and the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility have all severed ties with the FLA. USAS has called for a national campaign against FLA because it says it is "a weak and insubstantial coverup for continued sweatshop abuses...
...University attorney Allan M Ryan Jr. said Harvard feels that an affiliation with FLA is a step in the right direction...
...share students' reservations. We don't think FLA on its best day is the only answer," Ryan said. "On the other hand, we're all trying to find the right answer. If the FLA is going to seriously try to make a run at that answer, we're not going to stand...