UC now paying for sweatshop labor 

Apparently the University may not only be paying its workers sweatshop wages, they may also be paying sweatshops to make clothes for these workers. The SF Business Times reports on the union's claims that sweatshop labor from Southeast Asia and Central America makes the uniforms for the workers. The UC fires back saying "'prohibits the use of foreign-made equipment, materials, or supplies produced by forced, convict, or indentured labor.'"

Whether or not the unions claims are true, there will apparently be a protest against the use of these sweatshops tomorrow at 12 PM in front of Crossroads Dining Commons.

Meanwhile, a new paper by Prof. Laurel Fletcher tells of people in California being forced into deplorable working conditions.Email This Post!