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Instead, PSLM members urge Harvard to join the Workers Rights Consortium (WRC), an independent monitoring firm...
...Only the WRC was developed with the help of factory workers," McKean told the crowd at Holyoke Center, the final stop on Friday's tour. "Harvard, however, prefers to work with corporations. They're in the FLA, which we say as 'flaw...
...WRC is the first proposal we have seen that makes use of full disclosure. Full public disclosure of factory locations means that anybody can see for themselves whether a factory has good labor practices. Yet, as important as such openness is, Harvard cannot rely on just anybody to monitor factories; it will contract, or join an organization that contracts, professional inspection. The question then becomes whether to take advantage of the opportunities full disclosure offers...
...WRC proposal, assuming that factory locations and information are made public, would then staff a small, independent monitoring organization that responds to complaints rather than tries to inspect every garment factory on the globe. A secret, corporate model such as the FLA, on the other hand, lacking the aid of public scrutiny, would try to do all the monitoring itself...
...Harvard does not envision a plan such as the WRC, what role would full disclosure play in its eventual policy? It would be odd for a policy to bring the public as far as the locked factory gates and no further. Anti-sweatshop advocates know how to get through factory gates, so full disclosure in itself does increase the information available to the public...