Word: sweatshops
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
However, schools have generally been hesitant to commit to the principles advocated by students and labor-and human-rights experts as necessary for a strong code of conduct. We want a code that will be more than a piece of paper and that will really help improve conditions for sweatshop workers...
Administrators and licensing agents who spoke at the opening reception stressed the togetherness of this university anti-sweatshop movement, but they made no mention of the students who were responsible for starting the campaign and raising awareness about it, nor of the significant concerns of students regarding the lack of important provisions in current codes of conduct. We students were troubled by this self-congratulatory tenor, and we did not consider togetherness to be an accurate description of the situation given our concerns, concerns which we felt were not being addressed...
...Harvard. We need to work with our administration to create and implement the best code we can as part of what has become a national movement capturing the attention of the federal government. Last semester, we built public support for a code of Conduct and raised awareness about sweatshop abuses. In April, we held a rally in the Yard at which two workers from the Dominican Republic who worked in a sweatshop there to make university-logo hats for Harvard and other schools spoke about their experience. We will continue our public activities and our discussions with administrators until...
...manufacturers to disclose the exact locations of their factories. The schools must have this information in order to deploy monitors to inspect the factories. Students, human-rights groups and the public must have access to this information to ensure the integrity and public accountability of the system by bringing sweatshop abuses into the open rather than allowing factories to hide them...
With a U.S. Department of Labor forum on collegiate apparel and sweatshops less than a week away, PSLM members sought to raise campus awareness about sweatshop labor...