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Committee on Labor Standards and
Human Rights, said the committee
hasn't discussed the CLC agreement.
"The committee hasn't acted on this
- it's something we need to talk
about," Root said.
Bollinger and the committee "spoke
(yesterday) morning about some of the
differences between (the CLC) and the
draft code," Root said. "There's some
differences in the wording and in the
rights allowed to freedom of association
and collective bargaining, but I think the
clearest difference is in hours of work.
"An employer can require up to 60
hours of mandatory work, and I think
the CLC allows an exception for extra-
ordinary circumstances - it allows
people to go over that 60.
"One person can look at it and say it
is a legitimate recognition of extraordi-
nary circumstances, one person could
say it opens it up for abuses."
RC senior and Students Organizing
for Labor and Economic Equality
member Peter Romer-Friedman said
the University should have adopted
prior versions of the committee's code
instead of the CLC version.
"It's a slap in the face to the workers
who are on strike including pregnant
women who were brutally beaten by
police," he said, referring to an appar-
ent strike that began last week at a
Nike factory in Puebla, Mexico, that
produces University-licensed apparel.
SOLE claims strike-breaking police
were used to end an attempt at collec-
tive bargaining.
"Nike says this is human rights, but
we disagree," Romer-Friedman said.
Romer-Friedman offered resolutions
at the Michigan Student Assembly
meeting last night condemning the
alleged use of strike-breakers in Mexi-
co and to advocate that the University
implement its recently approved work-
ers rights code. Both passed.
University General Counsel Marvin
Krislov said the CLC code had been
adopted early in the Nike negotiations.
"We can draft codes from now until
summer, but now we need to have
something that is enforced."
Nike Director of College Sports Mar-
keting Kit Morris declined to comment
on the specifics of the deal or how it
rates with other collegiate Nike deals.
"It reflects the high value we place
on the University as a partner and the
stature U of M has in the world of
higher education and the world of
sports,' Morris said.
Morris also responded to questions
raised about Nike's human rights prac-
tices. "In terms of labor and human
rights issues, Nike was the first com-
pany in our industry to establish a
labor standards code of conduct," he
said. "We established unilaterally
higher safety standards for people
working in our factories, we estab-
lished higher clean air standards by
eliminating the use of solvent-based
adhesives in our shoes, we have raised
wages 100 percent in Indonesia over
the past year."
Nike Director of Global Issues Man-
agement Vada Manager said the average
wage of an Indonesian Nike factory
worker in 1998 was $49 per month.
Manager also responded to the com-
plants of worker's rights groups. "I
think that may be a problem for a
small segment of the university popu-
lation,"he said.
Krislov, Bollinger and Martin all
agreed the contract was a victory,
pointing out that Nike agreed to make
full yearly financial disclosures on the
contract, another first for the company.
"Nike is very concerned with setting
a corporate precedent," Krislov said.
"All campuses will want a similar deal
on the human rights side. We are in a
position to take some leadership. This
was a compromise they felt they could
live with."
Bollinger and Krislov agreed that
there was no plan of action in the event
of a complaint such as the Kukdong
strike, but that action would be taken.
"Because we do not have an agreed
upon framework does not mean we
would do nothing," Bollinger said.
"We're not there yet. This is a process
that's going to take years to develop
and refine."
"We're going to take any credible
claims very seriously," Krislov said.
"We've spent a lot of money and time
on the whole enterprise and I think
there's a commitment."
The University first signed a dea
with Nike to outfit teams and license
apparel in 1994, but Nike has provided
football apparel since the 1980s. The
six-year deal paid 5600,000 per year to
the University and ended with a tota
value of S11 million including equip-
ment and retail royalties.
University regents were concerned
after the 1994 deal that they had no
been properly consulted, but expressed
a conciliatory air yesterday.
"I'm happy that it's been executed,'
said Regent Dan Horning (R-Grand
Haven). "It will help the athleti
department immensely."
- Dail Staff Reporters Lisa Koiva an
Carie Thorson contributed to this report
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Ashcroft begins confirmation hearings
WASHINGTON - Attorney General-designate John Ashcroft yesterday
defended his ability to separate personal beliefs from the duties of the office,
saying his quarter-century in public life demonstrates that he can uphold laws
that conflict with his opinions and religious faith.
At the opening day of his confirmation hearing as President-elect George W.
Bush's most controversial nominee, Ashcroft told the Senate Judiciary Com
tee that as Missouri's attorney general and governor, he frequently put aside his
own beliefs to enforce and uphold the laws.
Ashcroft cited the central Supreme Court decision that upholds a woman's
right to an abortion, Roe v. Wade, as a case he believes was "wrongly decided"
as an original matter but now is the "settled law of the land" that he would be
duty-bound to uphold.
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attorney general is to enforce the law as it is, not as I would have it," the former
Missouri senator told the committee, on which he served until his re-election
defeat in November.
In a dramatic display capping his opening statement, Ashcroft raised his
right hand and pledged "as a man of faith, I take my word and my inteO-
ty seriously, so when I swear to uphold the law, I will keep my oath, so
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