Word: sweatshops
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...Harvard Students Against Sweatshops (HSAS), a campaign of the Progressive Students Labor Movement, believes Harvard made a serious mistake when it signed with the attractively misnamed Fair Labor Association (FLA) rather than the Workers' Rights Consortium (WRC). The WRC is a third-party industry monitoring group with no ties to the industries it investigates while the FLA's governing board is dominated by these industries. Harvard's decision to sign with the FLA suggests that, while Harvard has formally committed in principle to fight sweatshop production of apparel and other insignia goods, it has not yet effectively embraced this commitment...
These monitoring groups should inspect factories producing Harvard goods and apparel to make sure they do not operate under sweatshop conditions. In fact, these monitoring groups are critical to Harvard's commitment to fair labor practices because they not only help discover factories that violate its code of conduct, but they also determine when factories have reformed their practices to follow the code of conduct. It is understood that workers need their jobs so the purpose has always been to reform violating factories through negotiations or sanctions rather than closing them down or ending their contracts. It is not difficult...
...administration switch from the FLA to the WRC by a huge majority. Clearly, as has been suggested in the past, the HSAS does not represent just a small fraction of students. The students deserve to be not only heard, but to have a vote when it comes to making sweatshop policy decisions. More to the point, Harvard should switch from...
Over the past year, the Progressive Student Labor Movement (PSLM), which runs the living wage and anti-sweatshop campaigns, has staged a series of rallies and demonstrations protesting the labor policies of the University, but no students have been arrested and no violence has erupted...
Both the anti-sweatshop campaign and the living wage campaign have demonstrated in Mass Hall unannounced, refusing to leave until explicitly asked to do by HUPD officers...