Members of the Progressive Student Labor Movement (PSLM) have never hesitated to voice their opinion, and they have decided views about the search for the next president of Harvard.
Of the four top candidates--University of Michigan President Lee C. Bollinger, Harvard Provost Harvey V. Fineberg '67, Princeton Professor Amy Gutmann '71 and former Treasury Secretary Lawrence H. Summers--PSLM members say that Gutmann is most likely to be sympathetic to their cause.
They are hesitant about Bollinger--whose policies at University of Michigan seem to straddle both sides of the sweatshop debate--and say that Fineberg and Summers would do nothing more than maintain the status quo.
Sweating Over Bollinger
PSLM members say Michigan is one step ahead of Harvard on sweatshop policy.
Under Bollinger's leadership, Michigan is now a member of two sweatshop monitoring groups, the Fair Labor Association (FLA) and the Workers Rights Consortium (WRC), while Harvard is only a member of the FLA.
PSLM members criticize the FLA for being too beholden to corporate interests, and have long urged Harvard to join the WRC.
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