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Responding to fears that Harvard may reinstate its licensing contract with Russell Athletic—a sportswear company accused by labor groups of mistreating its workers—Harvard’s Student Labor Action Movement brought a former garment worker to campus last Thursday in order to speak about the company’s violations of worker rights. Harvard ended its licensing agreement with Russell Athletics last December, as the company faced allegations that it shut down a Honduran factory because of workers’ attempts to unionize. Yet Rick Calixto, director of the Harvard University Trademark Program, wrote...
...Lineup Details like stripes and beading give an edge to classic sportswear pieces. This page: LACOSTE Zepher Mesh Mr. 2 sneaker, $95 zappos.com) LANVIN green beaded high-top sneaker, $1,382 barneys.com Opposite page: COACH men's striped weekend tote, $398 (available at Coach stores...
...December, Harvard has joined an increasing number of universities that have pulled out of athletic sportswear licensing agreements with Russell Athletics after the company closed down a factory in Honduras in response to workers’ unionization attempts...
Russell Athletics sportswear continues to be sold at The Coop, said the Harvard Coop’s President Jerry P. Murphy...
...Although most people questioned in an unscientific survey on the streets of Tehran said they won't vote for Ahmadinejad, many believed that the incumbent would still carry the rural areas. "He's been good to the provinces," says sportswear merchant Ali Paykani, 53. "He's laid water and gas pipelines, and given them agricultural loans. Here in the bazaar, no one wants him to be president again, but these elections are decided by the people in the provinces...