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Kathryn Muchnick | Monday, November 21, 2022
Nov. 14-20 marked Worker Appreciation Week on campus and in honor of the week, various groups, including Campus Ministry, Student Government, the Center for Social Concerns (CSC), BridgeND and residence halls, came together to celebrate and uplift the Notre Dame staff. Bridget Schippers, a junior who helped organize Worker Appreciation Week (WAW), said the goal
Maeve Filbin and Johannah Ward | Tuesday, November 19, 2019
The President’s Committee on Sexual Violence and the Division for Mission at Saint Mary’s invited students to participate in a discussion panel Monday, to learn more about the “Save Our Adolescents from Prostitution,” or SOAP, project and the presence of human trafficking in the local community. SOAP, a “hands-on outreach to fight sex trafficking at
Cristina Interiano | Monday, November 11, 2019
What makes a wage just or unjust? The Just Wage Working Group is working to spark dialogue around this question through the development of the Just Wage Tool and Framework, a Higgins Labor Studies Program initiative through the Center for Social Concerns. The web tool was released on Friday, and is currently available through the
Megan Valley | Friday, March 2, 2018
Two years after being formed by executive vice president John Affleck-Graves in 2013, the Worker Participation Committee (WPC) made its first round of recommendations in its review of the University’s licensing codes of conduct, specifically regarding the University’s prohibition on the production of Notre Dame–licensed products in China. The main recommendation was to conduct a
Letter to the Editor | Thursday, February 25, 2016
In the all-staff Town Hall meeting conducted yesterday, the leaders of our University gave a 15-minute summary of changes to benefit plans for campus workers, then focused for the remainder of the hour on the student-centered enhancements, such as the Burger King replacement and the new rock climbing wall. Workers whispered, “When can I get a raise?,” struggling to
Lesley Stevenson | Sunday, January 18, 2015
Since 2013, a committee of students, faculty and staff has been compiling data and researching the impact of the freedom of association policy in Notre Dame’s Licensing Codes of Conduct, more commonly called “the China Policy.” “This began in the late 90s when there was a lot of activity around sweatshops, and the previous president,
Margaret Hynds | Wednesday, December 3, 2014
For the last three years, The Shirt Project has contracted with Alta Gracia Apparel, a fair trade clothing factory located in the Altagracia province of Dominican Republic, to produce The Shirt. In an event sponsored by the Center for Social Concerns and the Higgins Labor Studies Program, two women who work at the factory in the