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USAS at the University of Washington Pressures Adidas to Pay PT Kizone Workers
14 May 2012 12:25 AM | No Comments
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Hotel Workers and University Students – The Fight Against the Corporate University
10 May 2012 6:03 PM | No Comments
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USAS joins with Clean Clothes Campaign to Demand Adidas Pay $1.8 M Owed to Indonesian Workers
10 May 2012 5:00 AM | No Comments
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Louisiana State University USAS Petitions Chancellor Martin to affiliate with the Worker Rights Consortium
04 May 2012 6:23 PM | No Comments
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SLAC: University of Wisconsin Chancellor Ward must cut ties to Adidas, end mediation
03 May 2012 6:27 PM | No Comments
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nike Archive
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University of Texas Students Protest Nike Run, Demand UT Sign onto WRC!
Posted on April 15, 2012 | No CommentsOriginally posted in the Daily Texan, April 15, 2012 (photo courtesy of Shiyam Galyon) Longhorn Run raises funds and attracts protest Campus fundraising efforts were met with both support and protest Saturday... -
UT Austin Students Against Sweatshops Work Out for Workers’ Rights!
Posted on December 2, 2011 | No CommentsOriginally posted in The Daily Texan, Nov 30, 2011 Students, faculty request proof of non-sweatshop labor Published 30 Nov 2011 at 11:55 PMBy John Farey A group of students have delivered... -
Students Seek Dialogue with Sodexo over Poverty Wages and Anti-Union IntimidationÉtudiants recherchent le dialogue avec Sodexo sur des salaires de misère et d’intimidation.
Posted on December 20, 2010 | No CommentsA letter from students is on its way across the Atlantic. Students are appealing for a second time to Pierre Bellon, Founder and Chairman of the Board for Sodexo, to help change his corporation's treatment of its workers in the United States. You can read the letter in English and in French. -
VICTORY! Nike “Just Pays It”; Students and Garment Workers Beat Sportswear Giant!
Posted on July 26, 2010 | No CommentsMinutes ago, the CGT union in Honduras announced that it reached an agreement with Nike on behalf of the 1,800 former workers who sewed Nike college apparel at the factories Hugger de Honduras and Vision Tex. One year and six months after the factories closed and failed to pay $2.5 million in severance to the workers, and after a USAS campaign severed Nike contracts with universities for the first time ever, workers and USAS forced Nike to agree to everything they had been demanding. -
Nike Manager Admits to Sweatshops, Pressure Escalates at U of Washington
Posted on July 21, 2010 | No CommentsAs student activists continue to step up efforts to educate consumers at Nike retail stores across the country, positive feedback is pouring. One concerned customer e-mailed USAS to let us... -
After decade of struggle, Dominican Republic worker activists make college apparel again
Posted on July 19, 2010 | 2,165 CommentsEver since student activists first formed USAS in the ’90s, apparel corporations and college administrators insisted it was impossible to produce our schools’ clothes in union factories that pay living... -
Seattle Community Urges University of Washington to End Nike Contract
Posted on July 16, 2010 | No CommentsOn July 15th, a broad coalition of professors, community leaders, public organizations, alumni and students in Seattle sent an open letter to University of Washington President Mark Emmert demanding that he end... -
Students Cover Nike Lobbyist Office with “Just Pay It!” Flyers
Posted on July 13, 2010 | No CommentsEarly this morning, just blocks away from Congress, USAS members and community activists knocked on the front door of Nike’s lobbying headquarters. The students, armed with handwritten letters from the... -
Nike “Bites the Dust”: Cornell Commits to Dropping Nike
Posted on July 6, 2010 | No CommentsCornell University has committed to dropping Nike over its refusal to pay $2.2 million legally owed to 1,800 workers formerly employed at two Nike supplier factories in Honduras. The decision... -
Critical moment for Honduran workers’ fight: Tell Cornell to Cut Nike!
Posted on June 22, 2010 | No CommentsThis week, Cornell University President David Skorton is deciding whether to cut the school’s lucrative contract with Nike, or to continue doing business with the company despite grave violations of...