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...Chair Phil Knight recently reneged on a promised $30 million donation to the University of Oregon, and the company cancelled a multi-year, multi-million dollar apparel contract with the University of Michigan. The reason: both schools are affiliated with the human rights monitoring group the Workers Rights Consortium (WRC). Nike, a member of the Fair Labor Association (FLA)--a monitoring group backed by the government, several apparel manufacturers and 134 universities, including Harvard--accuses the WRC of being hostile toward corporations and setting unreasonable monitoring standards. While some of the company's complaints are valid, its actions are egregious...
...differences between the two monitors are marked. The WRC requires full disclosure of all factory locations, a living wage for all employees, surprise inspections by fully independent monitors and a governing board free of corporate influence. The FLA, in contrast, requires neither full disclosure nor a living wage, relies on announced inspections by corporate-approved monitors and allows corporate representatives to sit on its governing board. The WRC has been acclaimed by student groups and chided by big business, while the FLA has students on the picket line and corporate gurus sitting pretty...
...production practices behind shirts and baseball caps being sold in college bookstores. Earlier this month there was a significant breakthrough. Students and administrators representing nearly 50 institutions of higher learning gathered in New York's historic Judson Memorial Church at the founding conference of the Workers Rights Consortium (WRC...
There were two major developments that led to the formation of the WRC. First, the decisions of over 100 schools to join the White House panel now known as the Fair Labor Association (which began in 1996 as the Apparel Industry Partnership). This was certainly not the vehicle the students had in mind because of the very low standard set for suppliers' compliance and because of serious reservations about corporate-controlled monitoring. Second, students won the disclosure issue; once they became aware of hundreds of factory locations, they decided it was time to go and talk to the workers themselves...
...transparent nature of the WRC plan has clearly discomfited the industry. Nike went so far as to cancel a sports equipment deal with Brown University, citing the school's role as a founding member of the WRC...