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Nine days after students began occupying her office, University of Pennsylvania (Penn) President Judith Rodin gave in to student demands and signed an agreement making Penn the first school in the country to withdraw from the Fair Labor Association...
...Rodin signed the agreement yesterday afternoon, more than 150 hours into the sit-in and about 36 hours into a nationwide two-day fast in solidarity with the protesters. A dozen Harvard students participated in the fast...
While Penn did withdraw from the FLA, it did not agree to join the WRC. Yesterday's agreement charged an ad hoc committee on sweatshop labor to study the two organizations and make a recommendation on their relative merits to Rodin by Feb. 29, at which point she will make the final decision...
...really brought a lot of attention to this issue, both on Penn's campus and across the country," said Joffe-Block, who signed the agreement with Rodin on behalf of the protesters...
PSLM sponsored the fast to support Pennsylvania student activists who have occupied the office of University of Pennsylvania President Judith Rodin for the past eight days. The protesters are demanding that their university withdraw from the Fair Labor Association (FLA) and join the Workers Rights Consortium (WRC). PSLM's anti-sweatshop campaign has made similar demands to the Harvard administration...