Word: sweatshops
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Sure, we might take some flak for the embarrassing fact that only the threatened loss of our beer and ice cream--rather than, say, the plight of the grape-picker or sweatshop worker--was able to motivate us apathetic Harvard students into action. But who are They, whoever They turns out to be, to deny the importance of beer and ice cream...
...University Attorney Allan A. Ryan Jr., Harvard's point person on sweatshop policy, said Penn's decision would not immediately affect Harvard policy...
While Penn did withdraw from the FLA, it did not agree to join the WRC. Yesterday's agreement charged an ad hoc committee on sweatshop labor to study the two organizations and make a recommendation on their relative merits to Rodin by Feb. 29, at which point she will make the final decision...
...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...
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...