Word: labors
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Progressive Student Labor Movement (PSLM) spearheaded the anti-sweatshop campaign on the Harvard campus. PSLM sponsored the "Rally for Justice" last March. At that rally, the University announced it would demand its licensees reveal the names and locations of the factories where its clothing was manufactured...
According to Carter, Champion is "vehemently opposed" to sweatshop labor conditions, and views its overseas factories as an investment to be protected...
...University's janitors are expected to ratify a new three-year contract today that will raise their hourly wage by more than $1 by 2002, but members of the Progressive Student Labor Movement (PSLM) said the janitors will still not be making a living wage...
...largely because of the drop in violent crimes like convenience-store robberies. And accidental deaths on the job are down as fewer Americans are employed in such dangerous occupations as mining and heavy manufacturing. Says Guy Toscano, a program manager for the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics: "Being at work is safer than being out in the general population...
...weekend rally at Madison Square Garden was filled with reminiscences rather than rebounds, but on Monday Bill Bradley showed he's still got game, scoring a major slam-dunk over Democratic front-runner Al Gore. Visiting a school in New Hampshire, Bradley was formally endorsed by former Clinton labor secretary Robert Reich, who called the candidate "a man of commitment, dedication and vision." Reich left the Cabinet in 1997, long after his decidedly liberal economics pitted him against moderate White House policy. "Reich's biggest frustration was that he felt that by focusing so single-mindedly on reducing the deficit...