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...ongoing dispute at the Primo S.A. de C.V. factory in the San Bartolo free trade zone in El Salvador, where Lands’ End produces clothing for schools including Harvard, the same story is playing out again. Last spring, the WRC heard complaints of anti-union blacklisting, health and safety violations and other problems that violate its code of conduct; the WRC did a full investigation and publicized their findings. The FLA started an investigation only after the WRC went in, and never publicized what they found. And now, the WRC is leading the effort toward resolution...
...block actions. And despite its “reform” efforts, the FLA still lags in doing its job of responding to corporate violations of workers’ rights. From the New Era cap factory in Buffalo, N.Y., to Land’s End’s Primo factory in El Salvador, the WRC investigated charges of union-busting and discrimination and WRC-affiliated universities threatened to suspend their licenses if companies failed to comply with codes of conduct—and the companies ended up complying. The FLA, when it took a public stance, did so only after...
...administration now fails to prove it’s serious about the human rights of workers like those at Kukdong, New Era and Primo, how can people take Harvard seriously about human rights at all? Five years after Harvard began to negotiate with sweatshop activists, why has Harvard done so little? The solution is simple: become the 117th member of the Workers’ Rights Consortium. For students, it could mean the difference between pride and shame in what our university is doing. For workers, it could mean the difference between getting a paycheck and being tossed...
...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’ End and Primo back up to code...
...addition, and for the long term, the Primo case reveals the efficiency and effectiveness of the WRC as a monitor. While the FLA floundered, refusing to take any public position, the WRC was able to respond immediately to a worker complaint with a full investigation that found a consistent pattern of exploitation. While the FLA has been able and, to its credit, willing to support the WRC’s efforts to negotiate with Lands’ End, the FLA still has not released any of its own findings. It remains unclear if the FLA would have investigated Primo...