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...Florida's future terribly well. How did she stay so long? She chose the right career: rigid work rules and languorous appeals procedures make teaching a profession from which it is almost impossible to be fired. Which isn't to demean the millions of teachers who work hard for sweatshop wages. But when, for example, only .02% of Florida teachers were dismissed for incompetence last year, you know there's a problem...
About 50 students from 30 universities--including Harvard--will meet a few blocks from Times Square this weekend to discuss coordinating their anti-sweatshop efforts...
Students activist leaders have also had very limited success sparking campus interest in issues such as sweatshop labor and poor working conditions...
Harvard was again the target of a "sweatshop" rally Thursday, as nearly 200 carpenters protested a Harvard decision to invest in a luxury apartment complex plagued by charges of unfair labor practices...
Erlich said Harvard was "subsidizing sweatshop conditions" through its investment...