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The Stanford Sweat-Free Coalition sewed t-shirts into a quilt for about an hour in a demonstration for international labor rights. When the hour was up, a member of the group dressed in a suit presented the workers with a check for $.37, hoping to call attention to the poor wages that many textile workers receive. The group also wished to protest the University's absence from the Worker Rights Consortium (WRC) and the Designated Suppliers Program (DSP). Lewis & Clark students organized an event drawing attention to the international labor violations of Wal-mart and Dole Foods. Labor justice has continued to be an issue at that school since 2005, when the student body voted to join the WRC and the Board of Trustees declined. The University of Wisconsin Madison’s Student Labor Action Coalition (SLAC) is urging the administration of their school to sever ties with Adidas based on an ongoing, four-year labor dispute in El Salvador.

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