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...living wage sit-in—that’s what the issue was,” says HSAS member Alexander B. Horowitz ’02. “WRC membership was definitely secondary...
Particularly in light of the Coop’s recent licensing deal with Nike, Horowitz says membership in the WRC monitoring group is even more important...
...addition to pushing for WRC membership, HSAS will join with students nationwide to campaign for higher wages for tomato farm-workers in Florida who harvest tomatoes used at Taco Bell...
Harvard is currently a member of the Fair Labor Association, a nonprofit White House initiative to monitor labor practices around the world. HSAS wants Harvard to switch to the Worker Rights Consortium (WRC), a labor-based independent monitoring group that they contend is the only organization consistent with Harvard’s labor policies...
...It’s an entirely different model,” said Jeff D. Ballinger, research associate at the Kennedy School and a member of the WRC Advisory Board. “[WRC] makes a direct connection with workers. That to me is a much more transparent assessment...