Word: laborer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Shedding the garment industry's longstanding image of secrecy and silence, Gear proclaimed earlier this month that it would disclose the locations of its factories by January, in response to heightened concerns about sweatshop labor. Yesterday, Champion said it would do the same...
After Gear's announcement, members of the Progressive Student Labor Movement (PSLM) expressed cautious optimism that their battle for better international working conditions had been nudged forward, but they could not help but gush at the ball Gear had set rolling...
...From my perspective, I feel very secure that my company is not one of the companies [that is using sweatshop labor]," he says. "Until somebody shows or proves it differently...
...knowing where a garment comes from is by using an "RN" tracking number given by the Federal Trade Commission, according to Thomas J. Wheatley, a spokesperson for the National Labor Committee, a non-profit working in support of human and worker rights, primarily in Central America...
...March, Harvard announced that it was joining the Fair Labor Association (FLA), a government-initiated partnership of businesses and other concerned parties that will start monitoring next year...