Rallying for change
Student activists stage a rally outside President C. L. Max Nikias’ tailgate to protest his refusal to meet with students regarding USC’s violation of the Worker’s Code of Conduct. More than 60 students from across the country gathered on campus this weekend to discuss strategies for different activism campaigns on college campuses.
Photo Courtesy of Johnny Nguyen
Go SCALE! Maybe Nikias will finally consider signing onto the WRC.
I’m glad someone’s speaking out for these issues on our campus, I hope our university jumps on this and puts it behind us already. We’re headed for the top as a prestigious university and we don’t need this kind of record.
Whoa this is amazing! Talk about holding up Trojan Pride and the Trojan way! Fight on!
Thanks SCALE for all of your hard work!! Nikias should definitely affiliate USC with the WRC and finally make our campus sweatshop free!!
Our campus benefits from using sweatshops, and the sweatshops benefit from having our campus’s business.
While this may be true, what about the human cost? Are we now the type of society that believes it is okay to take advantage of those who can’t speak up for themselves, simply because their oppressors are okay with it…so that I can pay a few dollars less for a branded product? I would hope that our perspective still extends past our own nose.
Way to go SCALE!
Is this the SCALE freaks again?
Probably. Losers.
If you’re going to make insults about students trying to make a difference on our campus at least be bold enough to use your real name.
I respectfully decline. I feel no need to justify myself to people intent on disrupting a mutually beneficial system. There are lots of studies of the economic benefits of low-cost labor that you could examine if you were willing to consider viewpoints critical of your own. Yours is a noble ambition, but despite the meager change that you might (but hopefully not) garner here at USC, you are fated to lose the war of wages. It is far more likely that the minimum wage will be repealed (and I sincerely hope that it is—it will benefit millions of low-wage workers in this country for a host of empirically backed economic reasons) than sweatshops will cease to exist.
Really? I am not sure what you think is good about having low cost labor besides increasing profits for those who use it… Of course all that matters is money right?