Word: sweatshops
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...University Attorney Allan A. Ryan Jr., Harvard's point person on sweatshop policy, said Penn's decision would not immediately affect Harvard policy...
...sponsored the fast to support Pennsylvania student activists who have occupied the office of University of Pennsylvania President Judith Rodin for the past eight days. The protesters are demanding that their university withdraw from the Fair Labor Association (FLA) and join the Workers Rights Consortium (WRC). PSLM's anti-sweatshop campaign has made similar demands to the Harvard administration...
...University has joined the Fair Labor Association (FLA)--a monitoring partnership between the government and the apparel industry--and it has a one-year deal with four other universities to coordinate sweatshop policies and monitoring systems...
...other anti-sweatshop news, a worker from an Indonesian Nike factory who told a Harvard audience in October about poor working conditions has returned to work for the company...
Nike fired the employee, Haryanto, after he attempted to organize factory workers, but the company has now reinstated him after he went on a 10-state speaking tour in the U.S., according to a press release from United Students Against Sweatshops, the national college anti-sweatshop organization...