The action at Yale continued a two-week flurry of anti-sweatshop activism on campuses across the country. Protesters have staged sit-ins at four schools, including the University of Pennsylvania. A two-day sit-in at Johns Hopkins University is still ongoing.
Two schools--the Universities of Pennsylvania and Wisconsin---have withdrawn from the FLA and five have joined the WRC, raising the total membership of the organization to eight. About 130 colleges are members of the FLA.
At Harvard, members of the Progressive Student Labor Movement (PSLM) have been urging the University to withdraw from the FLA and join the WRC for almost a year but have met with little success.
The Yale administration has also remained steadfast in their support of the FLA.
"Yale is a member of the FLA and we plan to remain an active member," said Thomas P. Conroy, deputy director of Yale's office for public affairs.
Conroy downplayed the significance of yesterday's demonstration.
"What's important at the end is the argument and the merits of the argument and not the fact of a rally," he said.
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