Indiana University's licensing code of conduct requires all licensees to ensure certain basic rights of workers who create IU-licensed products. The University is affiliated with the Worker Rights Consortium, a non-profit organization created by college and university administrators, students and labor rights experts to assist in the enforcement of manufacturing Codes of Conduct adopted by colleges and universities. There are more than 135 colleges and universities affiliated with the WRC.

The Anti-Sweatshop Advisory Committee is comprised of concerned faculty, staff, and students on the IU-Bloomington campus. The committee chair is Dean of Students Richard McKaig. The Committee generally meets every three weeks during the academic year. Our purpose is to make sure IU's licensing code of conduct is enforced. In response to factory updates provided by the WRC, we contact our licensees and ask them to exert pressure to improve working conditions.

Indiana University President Adam Herbert has recently agreed in principle to the Designated Suppliers Proposal put forward by United Students Against Sweatshops. This plan would require that licensees procure a certain percentage of their garments from factories approved by the WRC as upholding worker rights.

2006-07 Committee Membership

Purnima Bose, Faculty
Kathleen Cornetta, Student
Lynn Duggan, Faculty
Jeff Isaac, Faculty
Andrew Lauck, Student
Jenny McDaniel, Staff
Richard McKaig, Staff
Ursula McTaggart, Student
Isabel Piedmont, Staff
Al Ruesink, Faculty
Philip Shelton, Student

Minutes of Recent Meetings

January 17, 2006
February 13, 2006
March 22, 2006
April 24, 2006
May 30, 2006
September 11, 2006
September 26, 2006
October 26, 2006
November 16, 2006
February 19, 2007
March 20, 2007