Word: sweatshop
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Brightly colored balloons livened up the Science Center's drab exterior yesterday, as students protested against what they called Harvard's inadequate response to sweatshop regulation...
During the last week of October, 400 students signed a petition addressed to the Harvard Corporation. The Progressive Student Labor Movement (PSLM), author of the petition, has been pressuring the University to implement a living wage and a conscionable sweatshop policy for several years. This is the first time, however, we have sought direct access to the Harvard Corporation. The Corporation is the University's highest governing board. Unfortunately, it is also the most secretive; PSLM is only now beginning to comprehend the Corporation's design and its influence...
...petition to the Corporation we stated three demands. First, we urged Harvard to adopt an effective sweatshop monitoring strategy. Last spring, Harvard agreed to a strong code of conduct for all overseas labor, but has since failed to implement this code by refusing to join an effective monitoring organization...
Whatever the WRC's supposed weaknesses, they weren't enough to keep Brown, Columbia, NYU and 59 other major universities from joining. The WRC is the only viable sweatshop watchdog organization which espouses independent rather than corporate monitoring...
...sweatshop issue is highly complex, and many of us, frustrated by the contradictions that present themselves and our inability to get a straight answer, prefer to leave the decision to Harvard's managers. We want to trust them to do what's best...