Our mission is to get the University to become a part of the Designated Suppliers Program. The DSP is a procurement process proposed by the Worker’s Rights Consortium and the United Students Against Sweatshops. It is a system for protecting the rights of workers and only applies to the university logo apparel production of licensee companies. The DSP applies only to those production facilities where products are sewn and/or assembled. Read more about it here: http://workersrights.org/dsp/
The university affiliated with the Worker Rights Consortium (WRC) in October 2008 which was one of our goals. The WRC is an independent labor rights monitoring organization founded by students and administrators. Check their website for details about what they do.
http://www.workersrights.org/
The other main tenant of our mission statement is for all campus workers, whether they are custodians, food service workers, teaching assistants or adjunct faculty to be paid a living wage and to be treated with dignity and respect by the University.
We also want the University to cut their contract with Coca Cola because of the companies terrible human rights and environmental record. http://killercoke.org/
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