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PSLM timed the rally to precede a meeting in New York today at which officials from several universities will discuss whether to recommend an Ivy League-wide "code of conduct" to regulate the use of sweatshop labor...
Ryan, the University lawyer involved in thesweatshop discussions, will be Harvard'srepresentative at the Yale Club in New York fortoday's meeting. Those present at the talks willdetermine whether a recommendation for a strict"code of conduct" will go to their respectiveschool presidents, who are ultimately responsiblefor the decision...
...factory lacks safe drinking water and that workers are routinely fired for trying to organize. The American garment industry grosses $2.5 billion per year from the sale of university-licensed products manufactured in plants such as these. Harvard can help to stop this immoral impoverishment by adopting a strong code of conduct that guarantees fair conditions in factories producing Harvard apparel...
...credit, the Harvard administration has worked at length with the Progressive Student Labor Movement to produce a draft code that, while still problematic in some respects, would be far better than the negligible protections these workers now enjoy. The draft requires that wages cover "local family costs, such as food, shelter, clothing, health care, transportation and energy." If effectively enforced, this "living wage" provision would represent a vital step by Harvard towards the humane treatment of factory workers. Unfortunately, it is precisely this essential provision which could be jettisoned today...
Even after agreeing to ensure fair wages for its workers--even in the face of strong national momentum toward a code--Harvard and the rest of the Ivy League are posed this week to adopt the toothless, industry-approved, Apparel Industry Task Force (AIP) code that includes none of these provisions. Phillips-Van Heusen, one of the main proponents of this pitiful code, closed the only unionized plant in Guatemala last December soon after that code was announced--a good indication of the behavior we can expect from factories adhering to the industry code...