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Prior days' news: By date | Search This week's print issue Back issues: By date | Search November 28, 2006Purdue Students Begin Hunger Strike to Push for Tougher Line on 'Sweatshop' LaborAbout a dozen students at Purdue University are staging a hunger strike to pressure the Indiana university to stop allowing apparel companies to use what the strikers call “sweatshop” labor to manufacture garments bearing the Purdue logo and colors. According to The Indianapolis Star, one student has not eaten since November 20 and another has not eaten solid food since November 17. Purdue is already a member of the Worker Rights Consortium and the Fair Labor Association, two groups that claim to monitor working conditions at factories where university-licensed apparel is made. The protesters want Purdue to adopt higher standards for its licensees. Posted on Tuesday November 28, 2006 | Permalink |Comments
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I support the students!
— Kevin Nov 28, 01:41 PM #
Big 10 Schools should support garment workers’ fight to stop sweatshops by doing what the hunger striking students want: start sourcing for factories where workers have already won unions, decent wages and benefits, and fair working conditions!
— jack Nov 28, 06:09 PM #
This is wonderful. The Big10 today, the Pac10 tomorrow!
But all seriousness, it’s not all about sports and status — it’s about real life consequences for people around the world who are producing university apparel. Strike and be counted! Ethical universities for ethical working conditions….
— Michel Nov 29, 07:34 AM #