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Article

4 Apr 2003

Author:
David Gonzalez, New York Times

Latin Sweatshops Pressed by U.S. Campus Power [Dominican Republic]

The pact [a union-negotiated labour contract at BJ&B hat factory], signed last week, was the latest victory for a once unlikely coalition of United States college students, labor activists and world-class brands like Nike and Reebok working to improve labor conditions in the factories in developing countries that make caps and clothing emblazoned with university names and mascots...Labor leaders here and abroad now say it [BJ&B factory] is probably the largest factory among the free-trade zones of the Caribbean, Central America or Mexico to have been unionized.