March 17, 2006
8 Colleges Sign On to Anti-Sweatshop Plan but Worry Over Antitrust Issues
The success of the latest phase of the college anti-sweatshop movement hinges, in part, on whether colleges can be assured that supporting it will not get them into legal trouble.
At least eight institutions have publicly endorsed the principles behind a proposal that calls for colleges to require that apparel bearing their logos be made only at factories that pay employees a living wage and have legitimate unions. But those colleges have stopped short of backing the proposal to the
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