Word: dominicans
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Romer-Friedman returned to campus in the fall fired up--but this time about more than football. With the help of a textile union, he and a group of friends pinpointed a factory in the Dominican Republic where workers earn just 69[cents] an hour making Michigan hats. They demanded that the university begin monitoring the production of Michigan clothing, which brought the school $5.7 million last year. In mid-March he and 29 classmates stormed into the university president's office. After a 51-hour sit-in, they emerged with a pledge by administrators to improve the conditions...
...Letterman producer Biff on the Late Show (Sept. 15) --Appears on McDonald's commercial (Oct. 10) --Wins National League MVP by a landslide (Nov. 19) --Appears on cover of Sports Illustrated (Dec. 14) --Hangs out with the President and First Lady (Nov.-Jan.) --Visits the island of the Dominican Republic (Oct.-Nov.) --Gets a national holiday in his honor (Oct. 20) --Guest stars at the State of the Union address...
...Harvard, the Progressive Student Labor Movement has led a similar charge--marching last week to President Neil L. Rudenstine's office in an attempt to present him with a check for $.08, the amount a Dominican worker receives for each "Veritas" hat manufactured...
...goal of yesterday's 50 PSLM marchers was simple: to meet President Neil L. Rudenstine in his Mass. Hall office and present him with a signed letter of protest and a large fake check for eight cents, the amount a worker in the Dominican Republic earns for every Harvard cap produced...
...stake in this meeting is how far universities are willing to go to take moral responsibility for their practices. Last year, workers from a Dominican Republic hat factory licensed by Harvard, speaking in front of University Hall, told us that they are paid 8 cents for each $20 hat they make, that the 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...