Word: laborer
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Members of the Progressive Students Labor Movement (PSLM) wanted to present Rudenstine with a letter calling for, among other things, full disclosure of factory locations and guarantees of living wages for workers...
Members of the movement will continue their crusade Monday night in a meeting with former U.S. Secretary of Labor Robert Reich and two former sweatshop workers from Guatemala, Hennefeld said...
...Kennedy School of Government's ARCO Forum, about 150 students, faculty and administrators attended a rally Tuesday (right) calling for increased faculty and student diversity. The school, protestors, charged does not meet U.S. Department of Labor recommended levels for diversity...
University presidents across the country have something new to worry about. Over the last few weeks, a wave of students protesting sweatshop labor have targeted the offices of college presidents who haven't agreed to the code of conduct demanded by the activists. At Duke, students seized President Nannerl O. Keohane's office for 31 hours. At Georgetown, a four-day occupation of President Leo J. O'Donovan's office ended last week after Georgetown acceded to the student demands. And it could happen here. Daniel M. Hennefeld '99, one of the organizers of the sweatshop protest at Harvard earlier...
...goal in this situation--to alleviate poor working conditions for sweatshop laborers--is an admirable one, just as ending the University's involvement with Vietnam was in 1969. And it's all too tempting to argue that the plight of oppressed workers in the Third World justifies whatever means it takes to end Harvard insignia apparel makers' use of sweatshop labor...