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...unionizing of college grinds jibes with the aims of AFL-CIO boss John Sweeney--who has urged the organizing of overseas sweatshop operations and amnesty drives for illegal immigrants--and of the U.A.W. The autoworkers' union also represents the curatorial staff at New York City's Museum of Modern Art; two years ago, it unionized teaching assistants at New York University...
Focusing on workers around the world, the PSLM anti-sweatshop campaign, in the form of Harvard Students Against Sweatshops, is still fighting to get the University to join the Workers’ Rights Consortium, an independent monitoring organization to which more than 90 colleges and universities belong. There is an enormous, growing world-wide movement against the excesses of corporate globalization, and the struggles for living wages and against sweatshops are all a part of that movement...
...We’re allowed to think we’re mad, but we’re not allowed to say it.” On the other hand, the Harvard Corporation is presented as a villainous, face-less governing board that allows the teeming masses to live in sweatshop-like conditions as the corporation successfully conquer the global market. Elaine Bernard of the Harvard Trade Union Program comments that “human values and values of democracy and equity should supercede markets.” But, clearly, her values are far removed from those who have...
...know why. Like many others among the idealistic young, he's convinced that free trade diminishes the standard of living of those in the developing world. On campuses throughout the U.S., that has become the conventional wisdom: free trade, which is the motor of globalization, drives down wages, promotes sweatshop and child labor and is, broadly speaking, a conspiracy on the part of rapacious corporate managers and wealthy shareholders to grind the faces of the poor...
Smith has a history of confronting the University about its policies regarding workers’ right and sweatshop labor...