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...Members of the Progressive Student Labor Movement lead about 40 students on an "anti-sweatshop tour" of the Square. The protestors target the Coop, the Gap and Abercrombie & Fitch...
Just as President Bill Clinton launches a final effort to convince Congress that China deserves permanent normal trade status, there are still plenty of critics who see the communist goliath variously as a strategic threat to the U.S., a vast sweatshop economy swallowing up American jobs and a serial abuser of human rights. Even free-trading multinational corporations experience enormous frustrations trying to do business in China. Countless joint ventures have soured on disagreements between the partners, contract violations and unrealistic expectations of quick profits. A survey last year by management consultants AT Kearney found that 60% of all foreign...
...scale of 1-5, how important is it to you that Harvard a) give its workers a living wage? b) have no involvement with sweatshop labor? c) build a student center? d) build a women's center? How important is it that University Health Services give refunds to students opposed to abortion? On a scale of 1-5, how would you rate the financial aid program at Harvard? If you gave to the senior gift, did you direct your donation to the financial aid program...
...Nike's many specious criticisms of the WRC, however, it has lodged two valid complaints. First, it is unreasonable to demand that corporations pay a living wage without defining what that living wage is. Second, in order for any monitoring group to be successful, it requires corporate input. Sweatshop monitoring exists to provide the public with full and accurate information about the conditions under which apparel is being manufactured, thereby giving consumers the tools they need to make informed decisions about what to buy. Yet, the ultimate end of sweatshop monitoring is to induce changes in the working conditions...
About 35 people braved the elements to listen to the panelists. Among those in attendance was University Attorney Allan A. Ryan Jr., the administration's point person on sweatshop policy, who said he found the event informative...