Word: labors
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...Export Re Justin Fox's "a port that exports": you don't wipe away an $800 billion annual trade deficit by further weakening the dollar, exporting raw materials and wishing for good luck [June 9]. It takes real change in trade policy - labor and environmental standards that will raise living standards at home and abroad, better guarantees for safe food and toy imports, and no more NAFTAs and other corporate trade deals. We need more trade - but under a very different set of rules that work for our families and our communities. Sherrod Brown, U.S. Senator, Avon, Ohio...
...they were needed--Latty argues that black soldiers warrant more than fleeting inclusion in the film. Christopher Paul Moore, author of a book about black soldiers in World War II, praises Eastwood's rendering of the battle but laments the limited role it accords African Americans. "Without black labor," he says, "we would've seen a much different ending to the war." Adds Latty: "The way America learns history, unfortunately, is through movies." Eastwood poignantly memorialized a heroic chapter in American warfare. But using a wider-angle lens might have brought into sharper focus a group often elbowed to history...
...Moreover, factory owners are frequently required to pay for their own audits - a fact that Auret Van Heerden of the Washington-based Fair Labor Association calls "something of a dirty little secret." One manufacturer with 15 factories in seven countries told Van Heerden that he had to deal with more than 250 audits a year, each costing an average of $1,600. Small wonder many factory managers see multinationals' codes of conduct as a plot to blunt their competitive edge. In a pre-audit pep talk to workers one Chinese factory manager railed: "Social responsibility is in essence trade barriers...
...Conduct Becoming Three years ago Nike, now among the most progressive companies on labor practices, took steps to curb what it saw as counterproductive auditing. In a daring move, it revealed its manufacturing sites - long seen as proprietary information - and suggested that companies manufacturing products in these same places collaborate on factory monitoring. Six months later Levi Strauss followed, and today is working with 15 other firms in 130 factories. Resources that once went to monitoring are now used on training overseas management, says Kobori, helping to create an environment in which factories have a bigger stake in how they...
...then CEO Paul Pressler conceded in 2005. "Almost no factory is in compliance with our standards." As a result, the goal for many firms is no longer perfection, but more nuanced policies and a gradual raising of standards. Traditionally, Gap pulled out of factories in which it discovered child labor. Two years ago, it revised that policy. Now, if children are found in factories producing Gap clothes, the firm asks factory managers to remove them and find them schooling, for which Gap sometimes pays. The firm's new thinking, says Dan Henkle, Gap's senior vice-president for social responsibility...