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Boise State joins labor watchdog group
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Boise State University recently joined the Workers Rights Consortium as a fully committed member. The consortium collaborates with workers, non-governmental organizations and other colleges and universities to improve the conditions of workers that produce collegiate apparel.
Boise State joined the consortium, “In an effort to take a socially responsible stand on sweatshops and child labor,” wrote Kim Thomas in a memorandum to ASBSU executive leaders. “In joining the Worker Rights Consortium, our school requires our licensees and/or sourcing companies to meet a code of conduct that is consistent with the WRC,” Thomas wrote.
The Worker Rights Consortium is a non-profit organization that supports and verifies licensee compliance with production codes of conduct. The codes of conduct were developed by colleges and universities across the country to ensure those goods are produced under conditions that respect the basic rights of workers.
WRC is developing a network of local organizations in regions where licensed goods are produced. This network will allow the WRC to inform workers of their rights under applicable codes of conduct and will allow workers to report conditions securely and confidentially.
United Students Against Sweatshops (USAS) developed the Worker Rights Consortium in collaboration with human rights and labor organizations in the U.S. and other apparel-producing regions.
The WRC provides college and university members with information about working conditions through close contact with workers and local religious, human rights, and labor groups.
The Arbiter (5/3/00) reported that apparel carrying the BSU logo often originates from countries where factories pay their workers substandard wages.
The WRC currently has 57 affiliated colleges and universities.