In this month’s issue of Labor Notes, UM alum and former Michigan Independent writer Paul Abowd reports on the organizing efforts of labor and anti-sweatshop activists at the University of North Carolina (UNC). For years, the campus group Student Action with Workers (SAW) has been pushing UNC’s administration to stop purchasing university apparel from sweatshops. […]

To follow up with Kim’s excellent post, Wal-Mart watch created it’s own video documenting the abuses at TOS Dominicana:

As Michigan wolverines, we do not take our commitment to the University lightly. When we see our block “M” being tarnished, we know better than to take shit like that. We take action. Yet the use of sweatshop labor to produce our University apparel continues to tarnish Michigan’s reputation.
This afternoon, two sweatshop workers Manuel […]