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According to a preliminary report released this spring by the Worker Rights Consortium (WRC), a labor-based independent watchdog group, the Primo factory—operated in El Salvador by Lands’ End Inc.—“has systematically discriminated in its hiring process against workers perceived to be trade unionists.” This “blacklisting,” the WRC said, is illegal under both Salvadorean and international...
These recommendations include refraining from anti-union discrimination, providing rejected job applicants with a written explanation detailing why they were not hired, and immediately hiring rejected applicants who prove to the WRC that they were not hired as a result of anti-union discrimination.Other institutions which license Lands’ End to use their logos have sent letters, including the University of Michigan, Indiana University and the University of Southern California, according to the USAS website...
...report has also spurred PSLM to redouble its long-time efforts to convince Harvard to join the WRC...
...WRC has proven to be an effective monitoring organization that takes into account workers’ voices,” PSLM member Anna M. Falicov ’02-’03 said...
University officials could not be reached for comment, but according to PSLM members, University President Lawrence H. Summers said last Monday that a decision on whether to join the WRC is forthcoming...