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SUNY Buffalo goes sweatfree May 26, 2005 State University of New York at Buffalo community members won't have to worry about buying sweatshop-produced goods anymore when picking up a T-shirt or notebook at the campus store. After three years of pressure from the undergrad group Students Against Sweatshops, SUNY Buffalo joined the Workers Rights Consortium and the Fair Labor Association and will allow the two groups to monitor workplace conditions at companies who manufacture apparel bearing the university logo and name. The groups will report fair-labor standards violations to the university. "United University Professions has always opposed sweatshop labor and our chapter strongly supported the students' efforts to eliminate sweatshop-produced goods," said Harvey Axelrod of UUP Buffalo. "The students did a great job." Working to discourage the use of sweatshop labor is a key goal of the New York State Labor-Religion Coalition, co-sponsored by New York State United Teachers. |
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