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Harvard Students Against Sweatshops (HSAS) has lobbied the University for five years to join the Worker Rights Consortium (WRC), a coalition of universities, students and labor experts that acts as a watchdog over factories manufacturing school apparel. Over 100 schools are already members...
...HSAS and other labor supporters have assailed the FLA, claiming it is constrained in its oversight ability by its powerful industry contingent. Industry representatives hold six of the fourteen seats on the FLA board...
Though in the past University officials have argued that the FLA is adequate, HSAS members have campaigned for the last four years to get Harvard to join the WRC as well...
...group believes that Harvard’s membership in the WRC would guarantee better collection and sharing of information about conditions in factories. Another benefit, according to HSAS, is that the WRC has no commercial ties to the companies it regulates, unlike...
...expect that Harvard shares our concern, and understand Harvard’s membership in the Fair Labor Association (FLA) as an effort by Harvard to address sweatshop abuses—though an inadequate effort,” HSAS said in a memo they shared at the meeting...