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Saint Mary’s hosts panelists to increase awareness on local, national and global human trafficking

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

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Group develops tool to determine just wage for workers, employers

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

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Student Worker Participation Committee prepares next round of recommendations

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

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Join the labor conversation

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

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Committee studies worker participation

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,

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Factory produces The Shirt, benefits community

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