Word: sweatshops
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
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...
...fact, there are ways to improve sweatshop conditions without costing Harvard a lot of money or causing workers to lose their jobs. The most important step for Harvard is to join the Workers' Rights Consortium (WRC), an organization of universities that monitors sweatshops and holds management accountable for working conditions. The Harvard Corporation has thus far refused to join the WRC, citing an alleged lack of corporate participation and leadership. The organization was founded only a year ago, and some consider this a drawback as well. In fact, on both counts the WRC has made considerable progress: It was incorporated...
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...
...group then took its protest to outside of Lamont and Widener libraries. Carrying large signs detailing the alleged abuses of the Nicaraguan factory, they distributed leaflets and urged passersby to sign an anti-sweatshop petition...