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...Primo factory in El Salvador, 5.000 workers, mostly young women, produce clothing for Harvard and other American colleges through Lands?? End. Conditions at Primo are, perhaps not entirely surprisingly, appalling. According to the Workers’ Rights Consortium (WRC), a not-for-profit independent sweatshop monitoring organization, workers at Primo face abuse from supervisors, forced and unpaid overtime and inadequate health treatment. Perhaps most egregiously, Primo systematically blacklists workers it suspects to be or have been involved with a union...
Once a complaint reaches schools, though, those schools need to do all they can to pressure the brands that they license—in this case, Lands?? End—to insist on improvements at the factory. Lands?? End at first refused to respond to the allegations and then denied the WRC’s claims. Hopefully they will begin to cooperate with the WRC to resolve the problems at Primo. Harvard should keep a close eye on Lands?? End, their licensee, and do whatever it can to get Lands?...
When reached for comment on Friday, Lands?? End representatives declined to address the specific allegations...
...investigating,” said Dick Mensch, a customer relations employee of Lands?...
Still, Falicov said membership in the WRC would not be a prerequisite for Harvard to pressure Lands?...