Universities Take A Stand Against Labor Abuses

*This post was originally published on DoneGood's Blog and the original can be viewed here.*

Last month, Cornell University announced that they cut ties with Nike over labor disputes.
This is a win for Cornell Organization for Labor Action (COLA), a student group that started protesting Cornell’s licensing contract with Nike two years ago after they refused to allow the Workers Rights Consortium (WRC) to independently monitor its supply chain. With this, Cornell joined four other schools that have severed their contracts with the manufacturer: Rutgers University, Georgetown University, UC Santa Barbara and Northeastern University.

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