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Holding up an $18 Harvard baseball cap that he claimed was produced for 1.6 cents an hour, Charles Kernaghan of the NLC said that this product represents “the greatest exploitation we’ve ever seen...
...manipulating students but motivating them," says the AFL-CIO's Sweeney. Either way, the outreach program has been a tactical masterstroke. "At this moment the sweatshop protest is definitely being carried on the backs of university students," says Charles Kernaghan, director of the National Labor Committee, one of several human-rights groups that are also counseling the students. "If a hundred students hold a protest, they get a page in the New York Times. If a hundred union people did that, they'd be locked...
...This gave us an opening to raise the issue in a way we've never had a chance to raise it before," says Charles Kernaghan, executive director of the New York City-based National Labor Committee, a tiny human-rights organization run on a Third World budget. It was Kernaghan's testimony at an April 29 congressional hearing on labor abuses that put Gifford on the griddle. "The fact that major companies are going after these celebrities to be their point persons gives us someone we can wrap our arms around." In fact, that tactic worked so well that last...
Viewers were aghast. No, not at TV hostess KATHIE LEE GIFFORD's mawkish reports of her son Cody's every hiccup and hangnail. They're used to that. Last week, however, labor activist Charles Kernaghan testified in Congress that the Wal-Mart clothing line bearing Kathie Lee's name is stitched together by children in Honduras who work for 31 cents an hour. As co-host Regis Philbin flinched, Gifford launched into a teary, it's-not-my-fault, TV hissy fit: "You can say I'm ugly, you can say I'm not talented, but when...