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...there should be, according to the Fair Labor Association (FLA), a non-profit organization that monitors the labor conditions of factories that produce goods for more than 170 colleges and universities, including Harvard...
Members of Harvard Students Against Sweatshops met with University officials last fall to press them to join the WRC, a non-profit monitoring agency founded by unions, non-governmental organizations and universities to prevent overseas sweatshop labor...
...nearly six years, Cohen has worked with the non-profit group Priorities, a group of business leaders that is concerned with how the national budget is allocated. TrueMajority grew out of discussions of what business leaders could do to contribute to progressive politics...
...course, I can’t blame the universities for making a profit off of college students totally unaffiliated with their school to reduce housing costs to their own students. And certainly I got all I was promised by American that summer. Nonetheless, I came out of the summer feeling that I’d been duped and paid far too much for far too little. I vowed to get a more reasonable deal on housing if I returned to Washington for the summer. That decision has now come back to haunt...
...airline is expected to lose an estimated ?800 million this year since it is filling only 60% of its seats. Yet some industry experts say the results are not bad for a start-up, and the airline is expecting to turn a profit in 2004. But there are other storms as well. One is an increasingly bitter dispute with former Crossair pilots. Their union has rejected a proposed 16% salary increase on top of last year's 28% raise, saying that former Swissair pilots were offered a better deal. Industry insiders say long-standing animosity between Swissair and Crossair pilots...