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Sweatshop labor issues unchanged, activists say.

Publication: The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR)
Publication Date: 30-APR-05
Format: Online - approximately 709 words
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Sweatshop labor issues unchanged, activists say.(Business)(Companies show more information, but not much progress, monitors say)

Article Excerpt
Byline: Sherri Buri McDonald The Register-Guard

In the five years since the sweatshop labor issue caused a temporary rift between the University of Oregon and it biggest donor, Nike executive Phil Knight, little has changed at garment and shoe factories worldwide, labor activists said this week in Eugene.

"There's more information on the issue, but not much progress," said Homero Fuentes, general coordinator of the Commission for the Verification of Codes of Conduct, a leading factory monitoring organization based in Guatemala. Fuentes was attending a global workplace health and safety conference at UO.

Many U.S.-based companies, including Nike, The Gap and Wal-Mart, don't own their...

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