The University has currently signed onto the government-sponsored Fair Labor Association (FLA) and independently employs the international consulting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers, but PSLM members said these measures are inadequate.
They charge that the two organizations maintain business associations with the companies they are supposed to monitor.
PSLM member Shoshan called PricewaterhouseCoopers a "lousy tour guide" because it "does business with the companies it monitors," he said.
Instead, PSLM members urge Harvard to join the Workers Rights Consortium (WRC), an independent monitoring firm.
"Only the WRC was developed with the help of factory workers," McKean told the crowd at Holyoke Center, the final stop on Friday's tour. "Harvard, however, prefers to work with corporations. They're in the FLA, which we say as 'flaw.'"
McKean, Fischer and Beach attended President Neil L. Rudenstine's office hours on Thursday to encourage Harvard to withdraw from the FLA and join the WRC, but found him unwilling.
"He was polite. He was not receptive to our specific demands," Fischer said.