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...abusing its workers, from paying sub-minimum wages to denying access to bathrooms, and illegally firing hundreds who went on strike to demand they be treated like human beings. The conditions at Nike’s Kukdong factory in China were uncovered by the Workers’ Rights Consortium (WRC). When their report on Kukdong was released, universities belonging to the WRC threatened to cut their licenses with Nike if it didn’t make serious changes in its working conditions. Contrary to the prophecies of free trade fundamentalists, the university pressures did affect change: Instead of cutting...
...changed her mind. “This is my whole life,” Morse says of her involvement in the Project HEALTH, a service organization separate from PBHA but still under the aegis of the Harvard Public Service Network. Morse directs the Women’s Resource Center (WRC), a project she first became involved as a first-year after her FUP leader recommended it. Morse thought that this program and specifically her work at the Women’s Resource Center would give her hands-on experience and further her aspirations to become a doctor. Morse also planned...
...says. After approximately an hour bus ride, Morse arrives on Mondays at the Boston Medical Center for her shift from 2:30 to 5:30. There are a few nurses and doctors in the Women’s Clinic upstairs who Morse says know the WRC volunteers. Most of the WRC cases are nurse deferrals. The WRC desk is located in a small hallway of this bustling upstairs Women’s Clinic and is situated directly across the hall from the room in which abortions are performed. The girls work at this desk, which is a foldable plastic table...
...added that since the University joined the FLA in 1999, the organization has improved its transparency in making public the findings of factory inspections. In May, PSLM again called on the University to join the WRC, saying membership in the FLA was not enough...
Casey said the “competetive” relationship between the two monitoring groups has diminished, and for this reason University officials “haven’t closed the door at all to potentially joining the WRC...