The Paper Trail

More Schools End Russell Contract

By Alison Go

February 26, 2009 RSS Feed Print

In addition to Wisconsin, Georgetown, Rutgers, Miami, and Houston, several more schools have dropped their Russell Athletic contracts following allegations that the company closed a factory in Honduras after unionizing efforts took place.

The schools:

Cornell University
Harvard University
Penn State University
Purdue University
University of Michigan
University of Minnesota
University of Washington

Am I missing anyone else?

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Does anyone know if Canadian Universities have been told. The place to contact would be the Student Union or the students Human Rights Association or the the office of the president can direct you.I will be contacting some of these University if anyone has the time to look up other universities in Canada please do so. Does anyone have an actual article about the topic that I can link to the emails I will be sending out.

1. University of Toronto ( Province ontario)

2. University of British Columbia (Province British Columbia)

3. St. Mary's

4. York University

5. Ryerson University (ontario)

6. University of New Brunswick

7. Magill (Province- Quebec)

8. Concordia (Quebec)

Andie 8:46AM July 20, 2009

UNC Chapel Hill and Duke University

none of NC 1:52PM March 11, 2009

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