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U.S. Secretary of Labor Alexis M. Herman issued the following statement
today congratulating the seventeen major colleges and universities for being
the first institutions of higher learning to join the Fair Labor Association:
"Students, alumni, parents and fans take great pride in their school's
name . . . today, they have a reason to be even prouder.
As a result of intelligent college activism, seventeen major
universities have signed onto the Fair Labor Association, an organization
founded by the apparel industry and human rights groups, following President
Clinton's challenge in 1996. This partnership among students, faculty and
administrators means their institutions pledge that their products, from hats
to sweatshirts, will not be made with sweatshop labor.
I applaud the leadership of these institutions of higher learning.
University-licensed products generate more than $2.5 billion in retail sales
every year. These schools are sending an important message--to their students,
their licensees and to all consumers--that they will not tolerate university
logo products that are manufactured under abusive conditions. And they join an
impressive coalition of garment retailers, manufacturers, human rights groups
and consumer advocates that created the Fair Labor Association.
In the past, the university community has played an important role in
the human rights movement. Today, a new chapter is being written in that
history. I urge other colleges and universities to add their voices to this
effort."
The colleges and universities that affiliated with the Fair Labor
Association include: University of Arizona, Brown University, Columbia
University, Cornell University, Dartmouth College, Duke University, Florida
State University, Harvard University, Marymount University, University of Notre
Dame, University of Pennsylvania, Princeton University, Rutgers University,
Smith College, Tufts University, Wellesley College and Yale University.
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