Word: sweatshops
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...intensive set-up. Nike’s tech-savvy also means, however, that would-be political protesters will be thwarted in their attempts to make a statement with their footwear. A recent chain email doing the rounds suggested that the Nike computers resolutely refused requests of “sweatshop,” citing the label as “inappropriate slang.” Ethical quandaries aside, it’s clear these puppies are going to prove irresistible for large swathes of trendoid fitness freaks, so get ‘em while they last—before...
...similar case comes up today, say, in the factory that produces your beswooshed hoodie, Harvard will be sitting on its hands. Despite broad public consensus against the appalling conditions in sweatshops, our administration still hasn’t taken the simple step that would ensure Harvard isn’t profiting off sweatshop labor—joining the Workers’ Rights Consortium...
Founded and governed by school administrators, labor experts and students, the WRC was created in response to public concern with sweatshop conditions and schools’ increasing complicity in them. The WRC monitors factories that produce clothing licensed by (bearing the logos of) its member schools. If factory conditions are in violation of those schools’ codes of conduct for apparel production, the WRC releases information about the violation publicly and seeks to mediate the dispute with the factory management and the licensed brand. The WRC has investigated every worker complaint it has received (it receives complaints from...
...administration now fails to prove it’s serious about the human rights of workers like those at Kukdong, New Era and Primo, how can people take Harvard seriously about human rights at all? Five years after Harvard began to negotiate with sweatshop activists, why has Harvard done so little? The solution is simple: become the 117th member of the Workers’ Rights Consortium. For students, it could mean the difference between pride and shame in what our university is doing. For workers, it could mean the difference between getting a paycheck and being tossed...
...charros,” the leaders of the “gangster union.” The caricatures represent the attack on employees who went on strike at Kukdong in December 2000 to establish the first ever workers’ union in a Mexican maquiladoro, or sweatshop...