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That some Harvard factories could possibly operate as sweatshops is alarming and abhorrent. Membership in the WRC would go far in eliminating the human and worker rights violations that characterize the production of Harvard apparel now. Rather than continuing to profit off of rights abuses, Harvard should immediately join...
...Iuliano ’83 and Harvard Students Against Sweatshops (HSAS) will meet to rehash an old issue: Whether Harvard should join the Workers’ Rights Consortium (WRC). After years of conducting research and presenting findings to the university, HSAS has made a solid case for WRC membership; Harvard’s continued stalling on the issue is unwarranted and unjustified. Sweatshop conditions should not be tolerated—much less profited from—by the University. Iuliano and University President Lawrence H. Summers, to whom Iuliano reports, should have Harvard join...
Harvard is already a member of the Fair Labor Association (FLA), an alternative sweatshop-monitoring group, but FLA membership has never been a fair substitute for membership in the WRC. As HSAS has persistently argued to Harvard, the FLA is intimately tied to the corporations it monitors, and many of those companies have powerful seats on the FLA’s board—allowing them to prevent and delay investigations and follow-up. The actual monitors often have business ties to the companies they are supposed to investigate objectively. The FLA also frequently relies on so-called...
...proved itself a more effective monitor—becoming a member would make Harvard a leader in improving working conditions in college apparel production. Membership in the FLA alone is an insufficient position for Harvard to take: the FLA has not been able to address rights violations as reliably and promptly as the WRC. Harvard’s involvement with sweatshops is intolerable—the school must do all it can to ensure that its apparel is produced humanely and responsibly. Harvard must join...
...Such a plan would offer Law Review membership to perhaps a handful more women per class while making all women selected for the Law Review wonder whether they would have been selected absent such a program (and making other Review editors, as well as judges and other future employers, wonder the same thing),” HLS Professor and Review faculty advisor Carol S. Steiker told the Record...