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Article

23 Jun 2003

Author:
Aaron Bernstein

Sweatshops: Finally, Airing the Dirty Linen

Now, a handful of companies -- among them Nike, Reebok, and Phillips-Van Heusen -- have for the first time gone public. Their factory labor audits were posted in early June on the Web site of the Fair Labor Assn [FLA]...The move also puts pressure on Wal-Mart, Disney, Gap and every other company that does labor monitoring, to release their audits, too. [refers also to Mattel, which publicly release its audits]