Eleven students at the University of Colorado at Boulder are in the sixth day of a hunger strike designed to pressure it to impose a tough set of antisweatshop rules on companies that manufacture university-licensed apparel, The Denver Post reported today. The rules would require the university’s licensees to get their materials from only factories that have been approved as part of a designated-suppliers program. Following the lead of the University of Wisconsin at Madison (The Chronicle, January 5), a growing number of universities have adopted such a requirement in recent months (The Chronicle, March 8).
April 18, 2006
Hunger Strikers Seek Stronger Antisweatshop Policy
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