Word: sweatshops
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Shame on you for focusing on the Gap as a paragon of marketing. This corporation has a well-documented history of exploiting sweatshop labor, which has sparked protest. Maybe if the Gap pared down its ridiculous $500 million marketing budget and provided safe working conditions and a living wage for its employees, I could actually buy those "fashionable" clothes and have a clear conscience. Until then, it's simply not worth it to be "in style." ERIN GAEL CHAMBERS Arcata, Calif...
...nothing but a blessing for this middle-aged, graying and balding television majesty that Kathy Lee may finally sign off from her co-host post. Philbin has had enough to deal with throughout the years--from Gifford's tabloid troubles to her sweatshop scandals to her chatter about 10-year-old son Cody--that Regis deserves a morning show...
...Progressive Student Labor Movement (PSLM) spearheads both the living wage and the anti-sweatshop campaigns, but most activism so far this year, both nationally and at Harvard, has centered around sweatshop policy...
...said this sit-in is especially significant because protesters have extended their demands beyond the issue of sweatshop policy. They want Johns Hopkins to institute a living wage for all university employees, in addition to withdrawing from...
...living wage movement can come together like the sweatshop movement has then it would be terribly powerful," McKean said...