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Today, Harvard’s top lawyer, Robert W. Iuliano ’83 and Harvard Students Against Sweatshops (HSAS) will meet to rehash an old issue: Whether Harvard should join the Workers’ Rights Consortium (WRC). After years of conducting research and presenting findings to the university, HSAS has made a solid case for WRC membership; Harvard’s continued stalling on the issue is unwarranted and unjustified. Sweatshop conditions should not be tolerated—much less profited from—by the University. Iuliano and University President Lawrence H. Summers, to whom Iuliano reports, should...
Mackinnon asserted that Harvard’s membership in the WRC would not be mutually exclusive with its FLA affiliation, and that in recent years the FLA and WRC have worked jointly on a number of occasions...
...We’ve heard pretty compelling arguments from even the head of the FLA that it can’t supply monitoring both internally and externally in a reliable manner by itself, whereas the WRC is able to leverage a lot of power over companies quickly,” Mackinnon said...
Scott Nova, the director of WRC said that the two organizations are “fully compatible,” with over 75 colleges and universities currently holding joint membership...
...every case that a university or college has been a member of both organizations it has worked out fine. [The WRC and the FLA] have different approaches but the most effective work has been done through a collaboration of both,” he said...