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Jenkins announces new committee to oversee manufacture of Notre Dame products

Observer Staff Report | Wednesday, December 5, 2018

University President Fr. John Jenkins has created a standing committee to review Notre Dame’s guidelines about creating licensed Notre Dame products, according to an email sent Wednesday to University students, faculty and staff. Jenkins formed the committee in response to a May report by an ad-hoc committee on worker participation, he said in the email. “While recognizing

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Faculty, students weigh in on updated ‘China Policy’

Margaret Hynds | Tuesday, November 3, 2015

In an email to the Notre Dame community last Wednesday, University President Fr. John Jenkins announced six factories in China would be allowed to produce Notre Dame licensed apparel for the first time in nearly 15 years. The announcement marks the evolution of a decision that came to be known as the “China Policy” and

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University to launch pilot program in Chinese factories

Observer Staff Report | Friday, October 30, 2015

Notre Dame is launching a pilot program that will allow selected factories in China to manufacture University-licensed products, with the goal of determining if they can meet and maintain worker treatment standards, University President Fr. John Jenkins said in an email to students late Wednesday night. In 2013, University Executive Vice President John Affleck-Graves appointed

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The better angels of our nature

Billy McMahon | Tuesday, January 27, 2015

Notre Dame is union made, and Notre Dame has labor problems. Administrators have fought campus unionization, workers have limited bargaining power and the university’s capital investments have little moral oversight. And yet, Notre Dame is union made. This contradiction is key to the proposed changes to our University’s licensing policy. We have many precedents to