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...reported to be shamelessly abusing its workers, from paying sub-minimum wages to denying access to bathrooms, and illegally firing hundreds who went on strike to demand they be treated like human beings. The conditions at Nike’s Kukdong factory in China were uncovered by the Workers?? Rights Consortium (WRC). When their report on Kukdong was released, universities belonging to the WRC threatened to cut their licenses with Nike if it didn’t make serious changes in its working conditions. Contrary to the prophecies of free trade fundamentalists, the university pressures did affect change...
...efforts at economic recovery have fared no better than attempts at security: the Iraqi economy has declined 22 percent this year. The Labor Ministry estimates that 12 million Iraqis—fully 70 percentof the country’s workers??are unemployed. Meanwhile, the U.S. and other foreign corporations and contractors have been importing cheap labor from Southeast Asia to work on the rebuilding of Iraq, since Iraqi workers “are more vulnerable to bad guy influence,” as The Financial Times detailed last Tuesday...
...This is a victory for public health and workers?? rights in Cambridge,” Murphy said. “We’ll look back on this in a few years and say, ‘Why did it take so long...
...think it’s a good thing for workers?? health and for customers’ health, too,” Lepri says. “And it will probably be a good thing for my health...
...strong endorsement of the Living Wage and the rights of Harvard’s support staff, is now perturbed that workers seem to be “encroaching” on students’ activities. The Staff’s calls for increasing wages for student dorm crew workers??basically subsidizing a “relaxation” from the “rigors” of being able to enjoy the world’s best undergraduate education—would deny giving this work to people for whom these jobs are not diversions, but livelihoods...