United Students Against Sweatshops Targets David Stern, Russell Athletic at NBA Finals

Students and an alum of the Georgetown Solidarity Committee traveled to Orlando, Florida this past week to participate in anti-sweatshop actions during the NBA finals. Russell Athletic, a subsidiary of Fruit of the Loom owned by Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway, currently holds a $125 million contract with the National Basketball Association. The company recently came under fire after it closed its Jerzees de Hondurus factory following employees’ attempts to unionize. The move cost 1800 jobs. In the wake of two US worker tours, 74 universities have cut licensing contracts with Russell, refusing to do business with the company until it reopens the factory (see previous story). Now the target is NBA commissioner David Stern , who has so far refused to acknowledge the Association’s connection with serial workers’ rights abuser, Russell. Actions this past week included flyering hundreds of hotel rooms, demonstrating outside Amway Arena, and a 42-foot banner drop that made local news reports. Read more about the actions at http://www.huffingtonpost.com/peter-dreier/human-rights-activists-pr_b_215326.html” target=,
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