The Chronicle: 8 Colleges Sign On to Antisweatshop Proposal, With Caveats Over Possible Antitrust Violations
The success of the latest phase of the college antisweatshop movement hinges, in part, on whether college officials can be assured that supporting it will not get their institutions into legal trouble.
At least eight institutions have publicly endorsed the principles behind a proposal that calls for colleges to require that apparel bearing their logos be made only at factories that pay employees a living wage and that have legitimate unions. But those colleges have stopped short of backing the proposal to the letter.
At issue is whether doing business with certain factories, while freezing out others that do not comply with the new rules, is a violation of antitrust laws.
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