Discuss “University takes a stand against using sweatshops”
Pittsburgh’s anti-sweatshop groups held a public hearing at a City Council meeting last Wednesday to enforce the city’s anti-sweatshop ordinance. For support, activists looked to Carnegie Mellon, whose licensing coordinator, Jay Marano, has held such regulations for university merchandise firmly in place for the last decade.
The hearing was the most public announcement of new developments in the way activists want the ordinance, originally passed in 1997, to be implemented in Pittsburgh. Activists have found a new poster child for their cause: the Pittsburgh Pirates. Local activists and baseball fans alike have been petitioning the Pirates to stop the use of sweatshop labor in the production of apparel featuring the team’s logo.
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