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Get Your School to Join the WRC |
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The Worker Rights Consortium (WRC) is a non-profit organization created by students, labor rights experts, and workers from across the globe with participation from college and university administrators. The WRC's purpose is to enforce manufacturing codes of conduct adopted by colleges, universities, high schools, and school districts; these codes are designed to ensure that factories producing clothing and other goods bearing school logos respect the basic rights of workers, such as the freedom of association and overtime pay.
Today there are more than 140 colleges and universities affiliated with the WRC, using their leverage in the $4 billion collegiate apparel market to support workers' rights in the global economy. In the fall of 2004, the WRC will open its doors to affiliations from the high school and school district levels. USAS students have been the driving force behind the WRC since day one. We are the ones who work on our campuses to pressure our administrations to adopt codes and affiliate. It is through this process that we build our power as students to be in solidarity with workers who are organizing globally. The WRC has been enormously successful in its support for worker organizing in locations from
the Kukdong factory in Puebla, Mexico to the New Era factory in upstate New York, as well as the Dominican Republic, Indonesia, and elsewhere. The WRC affiliation campaign is part of a strategy for any student group that is working to build power for labor justice.
Schools working on campaigns to join the WRC include:
- University of Pittsburgh
- Amherst College, Amherst, MA
- University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
- The Claremont Colleges, Claremont, CA
- San Jose State, San Jose, CA
- The George Washington University, Washington, DC...and many more!
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