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Formed last year, the group participated in two major protest movements this year--the Living Wage Campaign and the anti-sweatshop movement. The two movements have two distinct negotiating styles based on different expectations of the administration...
Since then, SAS activists have been meeting regularly with University Attorney Allan A. Ryan and have scored several other victories, says Hennefeld--including a tentative commitment-in-principle to a living wage for sweatshop workers and a faculty and student advisorycommittee to be established this summer. However,in other areas of negotiation, SAS has beendisappointed by the University's response...
Still, PSLM will continue to negotiate with theUniversity on an anti-sweatshop code, Morgan says...
...campus elicits a sardonic smile from many, if not most, Harvard students. Despite the snickers, however, Hennefeld and PSLM succeeded this year in forcing a change in University policy, an unusual accomplishment for a campus group. In March of this year, after more than a year of negotiations on sweatshop concerns, Harvard officials agreed to disclose publicly all information relating to the licensed manufacture of insignia clothing. Also, the University agreed in principle to support a code of conduct specifying minimum working conditions to which factories must adhere in order to produce Harvard apparel. With other colleges around the country...
...February op-ed piece in The Crimson, Aron R. Fischer '99-'00 and Benjamin L. McKean '02, two PSLM members, began by describing a wave of anti-sweatshop sit-ins and protests at universities nationwide, then asked, "Is this a scene from 1969 during the opposition to the Vietnam War?...No these protests happened in February...