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The Maturing Movement Against Sweatshops
Student anti-sweatshop activism has come of age...The signing of a collective bargaining agreement last March at the BJ&B hat factory in a Dominican Republic free-trade zone was particularly sweet for student campaigners...A developing campaign against Land's End is at the heart of this trend...the company's glacial pace in resolving the rampant blacklisting of unionists at the Primo factory in El Salvador's San Bartolo free-trade zone led Columbia University to cut its contract last November with Land's End. As pressure builds, the company's attitude is changing.