The University of Southern California is the 45th school to sign onto the Designated Suppliers Program! Students in USC’s USAS chapter, the Student Coalition Against Labor Exploitation (SCALE) have waged an eight-year campaign for affiliation with the Workers Rights Consortium and signing onto the DSP! This is an amazing victory in the ongoing effort to get USC to respect the rights of garment workers who make Trojan apparel.
USC signed on in May 2008, after four nation-wide sit-ins for the DSP resulting in the arrests of over 50 USAS activists. SCALE students organized their own sit-in in May 2007, and the USC administration threatened to revoke their scholarships, kick them out of campus housing, and suspend them. Shame on these universities for forcing students to go to such lengths.
But in the end, student-labor power prevailed at USC and will prevail everywhere else!
Check out the USC USAS chapter’s website at http://www.uscwatch.org/ and congratulate them on their victory!
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