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Representatives from the Ivy League schools failed to reach a formal agreement on a sweatshop code of conduct at their third meeting in New York on Wednesday, according to a University representative...
Members of the movement will continue their crusade Monday night in a meeting with former U.S. Secretary of Labor Robert Reich and two former sweatshop workers from Guatemala, Hennefeld said...
University presidents across the country have something new to worry about. Over the last few weeks, a wave of students protesting sweatshop labor have targeted the offices of college presidents who haven't agreed to the code of conduct demanded by the activists. At Duke, students seized President Nannerl O. Keohane's office for 31 hours. At Georgetown, a four-day occupation of President Leo J. O'Donovan's office ended last week after Georgetown acceded to the student demands. And it could happen here. Daniel M. Hennefeld '99, one of the organizers of the sweatshop protest at Harvard earlier...
Workers from this factory will be speaking here next Monday about the horrors of working in a sweatshop. By taking part in a plan that doesn't include a living wage provision, Harvard would be going back on an important commitment to students, but more importantly, to workers...
...order for a University anti-sweatshop policy to change sweatshop conditions substantively, it must contain four key elements. It must guarantee workers a wage they can live on. It must require companies to disclose publicly the locations of their factories, because otherwise sweatshops can be concealed too easily. It must be enforced by a monitoring agency free from any industry influence in order to avoid conflicts of interest. And, because as students we are implicated in the policies of our universities, anti-sweatshop polices must provide for substantial student participation. A policy without these elements would leave it open...