Yale Daily News

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Yale finally comes clean on sweatshop policy

Published Thursday, April 12, 2001

And last week, we learned it had all been lies. For the past year and a half, Yale President Richard Levin has refused to allow Yale to join the Worker Rights Consortium. The WRC is a proven, worker-supported organization that works to end sweatshop abuses in apparel factories by empowering workers to decide on what conditions are acceptable.

First formed about a year and a half ago, with its founding conference last April, it has found support from unions, international non-governmental organizations, students across North America, garment factory workers and 76 colleges and...

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