After pledges for reform, school apparel still made in sweatshops

[Khephra]

After pledges for reform, school apparel still made in sweatshops





December 12, 2004, 3:56 PM EST

HARTFORD, Conn. -- Five years ago, passionate student protests on campuses across the country prompted college administrators to pressure manufacturers to improve conditions for workers who make university apparel.

Today, college gear continues to be produced under increasingly bleak conditions, despite pledges from the leaders it would stop, The Hartford Courant reported Sunday.

Five years ago, 131 colleges joined the Worker Rights Consortium, which was supposed to inspect factories and work with companies like Nike and Champion to improve conditions. Experts say few inspections have taken place, and there are now only about a half dozen schools working to improve conditions.

"These are not institutions that should be associated with human misery," said U.S. Rep. George Miller, D-Calif., the first chairman of the WRC.

http://www.newsday.com/news/local/wire/ny-bc-ct--sweatshopapparel1212dec12,0,7415028.story?coll=ny-ap-regional-wire

[Endangered Specie]

1. Oh please, you don't honestly expect them to stop making 99.9% revenue

now do you?

pay $1 to make, sell for $1000.

At least they don't make lampshades out of the slow workers </sarcasm>

[struggle4progress]

2. kick

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