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...Progressive Student Labor Movement (PSLM) stopped and presented Summers’ staff with a pizza for the new president. On the top the pizza read “Living Wage and WRC now”—a reference to the Workers’ Right Coalition, an anti-sweatshop monitoring group PSLM wants Harvard to join...
...critics call it a dressed-up sweatshop; proponents call it good business. "It gives us the flexibility to move people where they're needed," says John Stropki, executive vice president. Indeed, during the recession of the early 1980s, when sales tanked 50%, the company turned 30 factory workers into salesmen to drum up business...
...well and good, if everyone can agree on what short-term is. No matter what we do know as students, we lack perspective: in my time here, the rampant issues have been randomization, the withering away of Radcliffe, the anti-sweatshop campaign and now the living wage. The year before I arrived, a rally to save the Phillips Brooks House Association drew many hundreds—the majestic photograph sits in PBH now, where, just as those people feared, the administration’s Assistant Dean for Public Service now has her office. The House Masters of the pre-randomization...
...best way to disavow the memo is to implement the living wage and strengthen the anti-sweatshop campaign," said McKean, who is also a Crimson editor. "For me, though, that memo is a troubling indicator of what might be to come...
They point to the Clinton administration's record on trade and labor issues as an indication of Summer's possible stance on issues like sweatshop policy...