What is the Worker Rights Consortium?
For schools that have adopted anti-sweatshop Codes, monitoring of licensee compliance with Code naturally becomes the next concern. In its Code, Harvard is committed to independent monitoring and compliance systems and so far, theres only one of those: the Worker Rights Consortium (WRC), a non-profit anti-sweatshop monitoring organization that would require manufacturers to publish data on their labor practices. The WRC is the only anti-sweatshop group actually endorsed by the groups in developing nations fighting sweatshops on the ground. The WRC is the only monitoring organization consistent with Harvards own anti-sweatshop policy. The WRC is the ONLY existing anti-sweatshop monitoring organization that fits Harvard’s anti-sweatshop Code, which includes full disclosure of factory locations, women’s rights, and a living wage for factory employees. The rival Fair Labor Association (FLA), which Harvard belongs to instead, has none of these provisions. Instead, it lets companies choose a
