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KATHIE LEE I'd love to tell that story. That would be nice for a change. Within weeks we had passed [antisweatshop] legislation in Albany...
What's wrong--or at least not yet right--about FLA is that its plan for comprehensive monitoring of factories, a significant element of any credible antisweatshop policy, is not yet fully developed and may leave some factories uninspected for several years after certification. We also have questions about how the factories are selected for inspection; we would like to see a greater role there for the professional staff of FLA. We are also concerned about whether FLA's intent to certify brand lines, rather than factories, is an effective means of assuring that workers' rights are being protected...
...delegates' reception Monday to plead for Third World debt relief. But scores of "radical jeerleaders" are practicing their choreographed cheers in church basements: "Smash the state/ Let's liberate!" Four Molotov cocktails were lobbed into an empty Gap store in downtown Seattle this month, Gap being a focus of antisweatshop protests. No wonder the city has budgeted $6 million for police overtime and is stockpiling tear gas. "If there are rowdy guests, we plan to treat them that way," says Seattle Mayor Paul Schell...
...university agreed to study that and think about it but they wouldn't commit, so we decided to increase the pressure," says Andrew R. Cornell, a Michigan student. The Michigan antisweatshop group then organized a 350-person rally, followed by the sit-in the next week...
However, just as PSLM has cast doubt upon Price-Waterhouse, it is reasonable to believe that the companies suggested by PSLM may have biases of their own. Antisweatshop organizations have no more claim to objectivity than a company like Price-Waterhouse whose reputation is based on its ability to be fair and unbiased. No matter what company is used, the University must remain vigilant in order to ensure that the company it hires does the job well...