By Nadine Navarro

Why UF agreed to join the Workers Rights Consortium

Every day, average Americans drive to their jobs, work for about four hours and then take a legally mandated lunch break for 30 minutes to an hour. After about four more hours of work, they go home.
But Gina Cano and Lowlee Urquia’s workdays were nothing like that. [...]

By Travis Pillow

On Friday, the University of Wisconsin-Madison (the state’s flagship university and home of the Big 10’s Badgers) announced it would end its licensing contract with Nike, making it the first university to cut its contract with the company over the improper closing of two factories in Honduras.
The Worker Rights Consortium (which I’ve previously written about [...]

By Travis Pillow

The question of whether or not the University of Florida should join the Worker Rights Consortium, which helps ensure that licensed athletic apparel is not made in sweatshops, will be on the ballot during Student Government elections, Feb. 23-24. As if the Reitz Union Fee isn’t reason enough to show up and vote, this non-binding [...]

By Travis Pillow

This morning the front page of the New York Times’ business section proclaimed a hard-won victory for United Students Against Sweatshops – the national group that started the Worker Rights Consortium, which I described in my letter to Tim Tebow in our most recent issue.
Russell Athletic, a major maker of licensed collegiate apparel, reached an [...]

By UF Amnesty International

“I am only one, but still I am one.
I cannot do everything, but still I can do something;
And because I cannot do everything
I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.”
-Edward Everett
After semesters of relative inactivity, UF Amnesty International is back! Amnesty International is a nonprofit, non-affiliated human rights advocacy and action [...]