Word: antisweatshop
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...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...
...unions--in particular the influential Union of Needletrades, Industrial and Textile Employees--continue to call the shots. "The students are vocal, but it's hard to get a viewpoint from them that does not reflect that of UNITE," says Allan Ryan, a Harvard University lawyer who has negotiated with antisweatshop protesters. Sheldon Steinbach, general counsel for the American Council on Education, asks, "How much of this student interest is really being influenced by unions whose main goal is to try to bring these jobs back to the United States...
...first thing I'm going to do is take a break," said Benjamin L. McKean '02, a Progressive Student Labor Movement (PSLM) member who helped organize the group's antisweatshop campaign...