USC Students Present University with 'College With(out) a Conscience Award' (tags)
USC Students to Put on Mock Award Show in Protest of Sweatshop Conditions in USC Apparel Factories
USC Student Activists Step up Pressure, Administration Responds In-Kind (tags)
Harsh response to anti-sweatshop sit-in threatens to obscure campaign details at a critical time: Breaking with a norm of accommodation of student protesters, the University of Southern California last week dramatized their willingness to evade responsibility for the repercussions of their business practices.
USC Labor Activists Launch Anti-Sweatshop Campaign (tags)
Monday, 10 October 2005, USC's Student Coalition Against Labor Exploitation (SCALE) will launch their campus anti-sweatshop campaign. The following is a brief detail of the event as well as an invitation to join us.
Report on the Student Coalition Against Labor Exploitation's (SCALE) USC Action (tags)
Twelve USC students occupied the university President's office for over five hours this afternoon, demanding that USC end its ties to sweatshops. After a lengthy negotiation, the students, who were willing to face arrest, emerged with an a major concession from the adminstration: The university, which heretofore had stonewalled the student-body on the issue of sweatshops, would make a decision by May 9th on the demonstrators primary demand -- whether USC would join the Workers Rights Consortium (WRC), which is widely recognized as "the only effective labor monitoring organization that fights sweatshop conditions globally."
USC Students Occupy President's Office: Demand End to Sweatshop Labor (tags)
Twelve USC students occupied the office of University President Dr. Steven Sample for over five hours today, demanding that the school join the Workers Rights Consortium to insure that the school apparel is not produced by sweatshop labor.