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...other hand, the Workers Rights Consortium (WRC) is a non-profit group that actually monitors factories to ensure fair pay and decent working conditions. Investigations are done by trained representatives from human rights organizations, and all results are fully disclosed. It is also the only monitoring organization endorsed by local unions and worker advocacy groups, those who actually have workers’ interests at heart. Already the WRC has made significant gains, for example at the Kukdong factory in Puebla, Mexico; the WRC there gained recognition from Nike for an independent worker-organized union, the first of its kind...
This is the organization that any institution of conscience, especially one so much in the public eye as Harvard, should join. Over 100 schools nationwide are already members of the WRC, including Brown, Columbia, and Cornell. What is Harvard waiting...
...general counsel to University President Lawrence H. Summers recommended last year that Harvard join the WRC, according to an administrative source. Two years ago, the Undergraduate Council and the Crimson Staff recommended Harvard join the WRC and give the FLA the boot. In November 2000, Allan A. Ryan Jr., then the University attorney, told The Crimson, in comparing the FLA and the WRC, “The WRC is at this point not as advanced…If things move along, we won’t rule out looking to join.” This objection is no longer valid...
Members of Harvard Students Against Sweatshops met with University officials last fall to press them to join the WRC, a non-profit monitoring agency founded by unions, non-governmental organizations and universities to prevent overseas sweatshop labor...
...despite the apparent inaccuracies in FLA records, Harvard officials remain confident in the FLA, which Harvard continues to use, instead of the WRC, to monitor factories that produce its merchandise...