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While other top universities are backing a new initiative intended to ensure that products bearing their school insignias aren’t produced under sweatshop-like conditions, Harvard is withholding its support for the effort.Although 33 schools—including Brandeis, Columbia, Cornell, Duke, Georgetown, the University of Michigan, and 10 University of California campuses—have endorsed the year-old initiative, Harvard says it needs more time to make a decision on the issue.Harvard is already a member of the Worker Rights Consortium (WRC), a group of over 150 schools that monitors university-licensed apparel companies and their...
Although Twombly said she understood that people aren’t happy when a big chain, with more than 130 locations across the world, replaces a local business, she says her store is different from others in the Square, such as Urban Outfitters, which doesn’t boast sweatshop-free values...
...that they “make their own costumes, sewn together with appliqués from the Garment District.” “There’s a dance aspect, and there’s a small business aspect,” Laskowska says.“Sweatshop element,” Chang interjects, giggling. Pringle recalls an incident at nationals, at which dancers from New York University who had $40 per day stipends from their school, actually bought food for the Harvard dancers. “We looked hungry, I guess,” Pringle says...
Labor activists staged a “teach-in” targeting Harvard’s ties to the Coca-Cola Company at Boylston Hall last night, with an anti-sweatshop organizer leading dozens of students and workers in a chant proclaiming, “Cherry, Diet, or Vanilla, Coca-Cola is a killa.” Harvard’s Student Labor Action Movement (SLAM) sponsored the event as part of its spring “Right To Organize” campaign, which—in addition to its anti-Coke component—also targets AlliedBarton Security Services...
...There are dangers here for Democrats. There is the temptation of demagoguery. Foreigners are the fattest of targets-Dubai sheiks, robotic Chinese sweatshop workers, illegal immigrants from Mexico-and many Americans want to kiss them all goodbye. There is also the possibility of severe economic consequences if foreign-owned companies are suddenly made unwelcome in key sectors of the U.S. market. Asians and Arabs hold an awful lot of U.S. dollars, and if they can't spend them on property in the U.S., they will surely make their investments elsewhere, taking with them jobs and opportunities that would have come...