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Changes to Increase the Transparency, Independence,
and Scope of the FLA - At its April 9, 2002 Board of
Directors meeting, the Fair Labor Association (FLA) made major changes in its
programs and procedures to increase the transparency, independence and scope of
the FLA. (Fair Labor Association, 9 Apr.
2002)
WRC Assessment re PT Dada Indonesia: Preliminary Findings and Recommendations - This is the Preliminary Report of an assessment of working conditions at an apparel and stuffed-toy factory in Indonesia [supplying companies including Adidas, Disney, Gap, Top of the World Inc, American Needle and Novelty Inc] (Worker Rights Consortium, 26 Mar. 2002) |
Websites:
Fair Labor Association website
Fair Labor Association Charter Document (Apparel Industry Partnership)
2002:
New Changes to Increase the Transparency, Independence, and Scope of the FLA - At its April 9, 2002 Board of Directors meeting, the Fair Labor Association (FLA) made major changes in its programs and procedures to increase the transparency, independence and scope of the FLA. (Fair Labor Association, 9 Apr. 2002)
WRC Assessment re PT Dada Indonesia: Preliminary Findings and Recommendations - This is the Preliminary Report of an assessment of working conditions at an apparel and stuffed-toy factory in Indonesia [supplying companies including Adidas, Disney, Gap, Top of the World Inc, American Needle and Novelty Inc] (Worker Rights Consortium, 26 Mar. 2002)
Sweatshop campaign by students comes to head: FSU [Florida State University] refuses to join 2nd factory-monitoring group [USA] - Members of the FSU Students Against Sweatshops have been trying to persuade D'Alemberte [FSU President Sandy D'Alemberte] to affiliate the university with the Workers Rights Consortium, an advocacy group that would monitor the factories that manufacture FSU-licensed products. (Melanie Yeager, Tallahassee Democrat [Florida], 4 Mar. 2002)
2001:
FLA [Fair Labor Association] makes major strides (Fair Labor Association, 24 Oct. 2001)
Three more monitors accredited (Fair Labor Association, 5 Oct. 2001)
Measuring and reporting corporate performance on human rights [joint publication by Business for Social Responsibility & CSR Europe] -...The report...analyses four initiatives in depth - the Global Reporting Initiative, Social Accountability 8000, the Ethical Trade Initiative and the Fair Labour Association - and provides synopses of key human rights international standards and other reference sources. (Business for Social Responsibility & CSR Europe, Oct. 2001):
Wary Allies [concerning the pros and cons of using corporate codes of conduct to promote labour rights; one concern being "a rush to corporate codes of conduct would allow powerful companies to avoid union organizing, enforceable collective agreements, and government regulation"] (Lance Compa, American Prospect, 2-16 July 2001)
The NGO-Industrial Complex: A new global activism is shaming the world's top companies into enacting codes of conduct and opening their Third World factories for inspection. But before you run a victory lap in your new sweatshop-free sneakers, ask yourself: Do these voluntary arrangements truly help workers and the environment, or do they merely weaken local governments while adding more green to the corporate bottom line? (Gary Gereffi [Professor of sociology and Director of the Markets and Management Studies Program at Duke University], Ronie Garcia-Johnson [Assistant Professor of environmental policy at Duke University], Erika Sasser [Visiting Assistant Professor at the Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences at Duke University], in Foreign Policy, July-Aug. 2001)
Nearly 1000 companies announce intention to join the FLA: Universities urge licensees to join (Fair Labor Association, 12 June 2001)
Groups take stand on overseas labor: Working conditions scrutinized (Bruce Finley, Denver Post, 14 June 2001)
Three more monitors accredited by FLA [Fair Labor Association] (Fair Labor Association, 4 June 2001)
FLA [Fair Labor Association] denounces ELF [Earth Liberation Front] actions [advocating violence against Nike stores] (Nike, 11 Apr. 2001)
Apparel Makers Fund New Labor Group To Inspect Factories, Screen for Sweatshops [Fair Labor Association] (Joseph Pereira, Wall Street Journal, 10 Apr. 2001)
Phillips-Van Heusen and Eddie Bauer join the FLA (Fair Labor Association, 3 Apr. 2001)
Nike - a long way to go? A view from Tim O’Connor of the NikeWatch campaign (Tim O’Connor, in Human Rights & Business Matters, newsletter of Amnesty International UK Business Group, spring/summer 2001)
Nike develops remediation plan for Kukdong [factory in Mexico] based on recently completed independent audit (Nike, 14 Mar. 2001)
PHULKI and COVERCO Join Fair Labor Accredited Independent Monitors (Fair Labor Association, 5 Mar. 2001)
KUKDONG: Sweatshop conditions indicative of problems facing global workers - The recent attention focused on a Mexican factory producing Nike and Reebok sweatshirts has once again highlighted the problems of sweatshop conditions in apparel factories around the world (Lawyers Committee for Human Rights, 6 Feb. 2001)
Fair Labor Association approves seven companies for participation in FLA's Monitoring Program; Accredits first Independent Monitor (Fair Labor Association, 24 Jan. 2001)
2000:
UO [University of Oregon] Wins Back Knight [Nike CEO Phil Knight] as Fan, but Not as Donor (kgw.com [Portland, Oregon], 10 Nov. 2000)
U-M [University of Michigan] Bungles Nike Deal (editorial, Detroit News, 5 May 2000)
Will Nike spurn colleges? (Greg Bolt, Register-Guard [Eugene, Oregon], 22 Apr. 2000)
1999:
Brown to remain in Fair Labor Association, join Worker Rights Consortium (Brown University News Service, 18 Oct. 1999)
Fair Labor Association adds colleges and universities, will monitor anti-sweatshop labor standards (American Council on Education, 15 Mar. 1999)
What's Fair about the Fair Labor Association? An analysis of the newly created company/NGO effort to eliminate sweatshops (Medea Benjamin, Global Exchange, Feb. 1999)
1998:
White House Apparel Industry Partnership issues proposal with serious shortcomings in living wages and the right to organize (Sweatshop Watch, Nov. 1998)