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...Chavarría Lopez said. She also criticized the FLA investigation, saying that the group failed to take testimonies from factory workers or from the Honduran Ministry of Labor. Both Mirza and Chavarría Lopez called for Harvard to wait for the recommendations from the Worker Rights Consortium (WRC)—another labor rights group—before it decided whether or not to renew its contract with Russell. According to Mirza, the WRC investigation was more exhaustive and its recommendations would likely be more stringent. “We’re not trying to condemn Harvard...
...WRC released a memorandum to universities affiliated with Russell on October 10, 2008, stating that the “university community faces an issue of serious and urgent concern,” as the athletics company showed hostility toward workers in their efforts to unionize, which are protected by university codes of conduct...
...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 contractors. The University announced that it would join the WRC in December 2003, after five years of lobbying by student anti-sweatshop activists.In January, the consortium’s board endorsed a new initiative, the Designated...
Mackinnon said the Iuliano meeting seems to have been a turning point in the WRC battle...
...said that in their April meeting, Summers conditioned WRC membership on HSAS dropping its demand for a new code...