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Students and others have urged that universities join the Worker Rights Consortium (WRC), an organization that, in its words, intends to "receive and verify worker complaints of abuses and violations" of codes of conduct and "coordinate proactive investigations" of working conditions with local human rights organizations. It does not intend to conduct monitoring. It will have an organizing meeting in April, at which time it will select its governing board and advisory council and "deliberate on programmatic development...
Will Harvard join the WRC? It's too early to tell. We'll be in a better position to decide that issue after WRC organizes itself, chooses its leadership and decides how it will go about carrying out its goals...
...largest anti-sweatshop demonstrations to date, about 300 to 400 Yale University students rallied yesterday to demand that their administration withdraw from the Fair Labor Association (FLA) and join the Workers Rights Consortium (WRC...
Both the FLA and the WRC are organizations designed to monitor overseas sweatshops, but activists said clothing manufacturers have too great an influence...
...schools--the Universities of Pennsylvania and Wisconsin---have withdrawn from the FLA and five have joined the WRC, raising the total membership of the organization to eight. About 130 colleges are members...