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° The AIP won't improve human rights or the
living standards of workers" said SOLE member
-Bil Abresch, an LSA sophomore.
Thirty SOLE members seized and occupied
..j iversity President Lee Bollinger's office for 51
:hours two weeks ago, demanding administrators
Zddpt a sfrong set of labor standards for licensed
inufacturers.
During SOLE's protest, one demand the stu-
*ients made was that administrators not sign the
AIP-FLA. They said the University's code, which
Bollinger presented to the University Board of
Regents while the sit-in took place, is much
stronger than the AIP-FLA code.
University spokesperson Julie Peterson said the
'University has deferred its decision to sign the
AIP-FLA code until further discussions between
administrators and SOLE.
Even if the University would join the AIP-FLA
consortium, Peterson said the University would
ot retreat from the standards in its own anti-
weatshop code. But the 'effects of signing the
AIP-FLA code on the University's newly adopted
labor standards are unclear, since neither code
has been put into practice.
The University's anti-sweatshop code is the
x strongest in the nation, containing not only calls
for the public disclosure of factory locations and
ownership, but a commitment to the implementa-
tion of a wage reflective of local living conditions
for apparel laborers.
"I think the energy of university students at
ichigan and elsewhere is very important in
pushing this discussion forward," said University
alum Michael Posner, executive director of the
Lawyers Committee for Human Rights, a member
of the AIP alliance.
Posner believes the AIP-FLA code is a good
start to address the problem of sweatshop labor in
the apparel industry.
"It's a part of the way forward," Posner said.
The AIP is encouraging the nation's schools to
sign onto the AIP-FLA code saying it is currently
Re best way to address sweatshop conditions in
e apparel industry.
"Where colleges and universities join, we expect
their licensees, many of which are major apparel
and footwear companies, to follow suit,' AIP co-
Chairs Roberta Karp and Linda Golodner said in a
written statement.
But the code's critics cite many weaknesses in
the AIP-FLA code and contend they greatly dis-
credit the 26-page document.
"The code the AIP has produced is very weak,
said Charles Kernaghan, NLC executive director.
Kernaghan and the NLC discovered sweatshop
labor conditions in factories producing merchan-
dise for talk show host Kathie Lee Gifford's cloth-
ing line in 1996.
Public disclosure,
monitoring problems
Critics have said one major flaw with the code is
that it has no specific calls for public disclosure.
"We would like to scrap it and start ovdr,"
Abresch said.
According to the AIP-FLA code, the informa-
tion on locations and ownership of factories
"shall be disclosed only to those key staff mem-
bers of the Association whose duties reasonably
require them to have access to such information
and shall be maintained in strict confidence by
such staff members."
Abresch said that wording "explicitly does not
have public disclosure."
Posner said the AIP-FLA code does have flaws
but that does not necessarily mean it is a bad doc-
ument.
"It's not perfect, but it's credible," he said.
Posner said the code is a working document and
universities developing their own codes are not
limited by signing the AIP-FLA code.
"Start with the FLA to provide a basis and (uni-
versities) can carry their codes further," Posner
said, adding that "other things can be built on top
of that."
Members of SOLE said stipulations of the
AIP-FLA code make it inflexible because a two-
thirds majority is required to amend it.
"It was written to benefit the companies who
created it," Abresch said.
Posner said he disagreed with claims of the
code's inflexibility.
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"The code the AlP has
produced is very
weak"
- Charles Kernaghan
National Labor Committee executive director
"I think the door is still open'" he said.
"There is no clause in place that makes that
claim plausible" Abresch said.
SOLE echoes the claims of United Students
Against Sweatshops about how the AIP-FLA code
monitors factory labor conditions. The USAS out-
lined four major problems it saw in the monitoring
process of the AIP-FLA code:
The executive director of the FLA has the*
final decision whether to investigate third party
complaints, even if originating from universities.
Universities have no input about which orga-
nizations investigate potential labor violations.
Factories will receive advance notice prior to
visits from monitoring organizations.
All reports from inspections will be kept con-
fidential.
Posner and other AIP-FLA supporters respond-
ed to these criticisms in a written statement
released to The Michigan Daily on Friday.
"Universities affiliating with the FLA can
require that their licensees consult with them as to
the selection of these external monitors," the state-
ment said.
AIP-FLA supporters also wrote in the statement
that the code requires announced and unan-
nounced inspections and that official monitoring
reports "should" be made public, with the infor-
mation from third party complaints summarized in
public reports.
"I don't believe the Apparel Industry
Partnership-Fair Labor Association goes far
enough. ... We need stronger mechanisms to mon-
itor," said Rep. Marcy Kaptur (D-Ohio).
But AIP-FLA code supporters believe universi-
ties cannot police the world's factories.
"I don't think universities, including Michigan,
have the resources to monitor," Posner said.
Nike spokesperson Vada Manager said that
because universities are unable to police all
sweatshop factories, he believes the nation's
colleges should sign onto the AIP-FLA code
because "one central code is much stronger
than 75 potentially unenforceable codes," he
said.
But Abresch said if universities join together
separate from the AIP-FLA, they will be able to
pool resources to monitor factories.
Corporations defend code-
'U' considers joining AIP-FLA
SOLE members and Kernaghan said the AIP
code is nothing but a fagade of corporate liberal-
ism - trying to appear as if it is addressing the
issue.
"I think this is damage control for the corpora-
tions;" Kernaghan said.
But AIP-FLA code supporters refute those
claims.
Manager said the AIP-FLA agreement has been
hammered out for the past two years and is the
"gold standard" for codes of conduct.
Nike announced earlier this month that it
will provide some disclosure of factory loca-
tions.
"I recognize that some universities believe
that the FLA's provisions on disclosure of fac-
tory names and locations do not go far
enough," Nike Chief Executive Officer Phillip
Knight wrote in a letter to Bollinger earlier
this month.
But, "while I believe the FLA's provisions are
sufficient and more reasonable, Nike doesn't
believe this should be a stumbling block for an
institution to join the FLA,' Knight wrote.
Many student activists at Duke, Harvard and
elsewhere are upset because their administra-
tions signed the AIP-FLA code after student
movements forced their schools to commit to
stronger labor standards, such as public dis-
closure.
"It was done in bad faith," Kernaghan said.
"Frankly, I think it will backfire on them."
SOLE members are scheduled to meet with
administrators today to continue discussions on the
University's code.
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When DPS officer Kevin Mc~ulty
entered Bruns' room March 18 to
search for evidence of the alleged child
pornography, Peterson said, he liscov-
ered illegal materials on Brunt' com-
puter. McNulty arrested Bruns and
seized the computer. Later, Bruns was
released on his own recognizance:
"Our campus police believe this was
an isolated incident of short duration,"
Peterson said, adding that no, other
University students are currently under
investigation for the incident.
According to documents fRV ' the
Washtenaw County Courthouse, Bruns is
planning to plead not guilty.to the
charges. His attorney, Douglas Mullkoff,
declined to comment on the case .because
"it is pending at this stage"
The Child Sexually Abusive Act
states it is illegal to "distribute, pro-
mote, or finance the distribution or pro-
motion of and/or receive for the.pur-
pose of distributing or promoting child
sexually abusive activity or child sexu-
ally abusive material."
Peterson declined to comment
whether Bruns will be suspended under
the University's Code of Student
Conduct. "Criminal activities of this sort
go against the computing policies of the
University and the Code of Student
Conduct:' Peterson said.
Activities prohibited under the Code
include "violating state or federal law if
such action has serious impact on the
University community" and "violating
University computer policies."
The Information Tecli 6lgy
Policies and Guidelines outlinedinjthe
University Standard Practice'Gnide
state that "illegal material, such as child
pornography, from any source will not
be tolerated or further distributed with-
in the University community."
will not be challenged again.
Clinton administration officials said
the events of the past few days have
shown that the battle now is really
about the future status of Kosovo: Who
is going to live there and who is going
to control it politically?
The Serbs, by all accounts, appear
bent on exiling or killing enough of the
ethnic Albanian majority to ensure that
their authority will not be challenged
again.
According to NATO spokesperson
Jamie Shea, for example, the '1typf
Pec, which had a population of about
100,000, "has been almost totaHy
destroyed. We also have reports ofpeo-
pie, thousands of people from Prizren,
being forced to leave on a forced march
toward the Albanian border."
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intensity and the brutality of the use of
Serbian military and security forces,
paramilitary and armed Serb civilians
who are simply rampaging through
large sections of Kosovo."
Kosovo is a province of Serbia, the
dominant republic of Yugoslavia.
Before hundreds of thousands fled into
neighboring Albania and Macedonia,
Kosovo's province was about 90 per-
cent ethnic Albanian.
In a campaign that NATO officials say
was planned and prepared long before
the bombing started, Milosevic's forces
have been burning villages and forcing
civilians to leave Kosovo in an apparent
attempt to ensure that Serb power there
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