文档介绍:Bylaws of the Worker Rights Consortium
ARTICLE I
Name, Offices, and Purposes
Section NAME. The name of this corporation shall be “Worker Rights Consortium,
Inc.”(“WRC”).
Section CORPORATE OFFICES. The principal office of this corporation shall be
located within New York, New York. The corporation may establish other offices, as the board
of directors may designate or as the affairs of the corporation may require from time to time.
Section PURPOSE
The corporation, which is not a anization, shall be established and
maintained for the following purposes:
(a) to promote socially responsible initiatives by universities and colleges, and by
manufacturers who use the indicia of those universities and colleges, for the improvement of
working conditions and labor standards in domestic and global production of that merchandise;
(b) to promote in munity of universities, colleges and manufacturers, through
education and research, awareness of and appropriate responses to production of merchandise
bearing college and university indicia under ethically eptable working conditions such as
sweated, child, sub-living-wage, discriminatory, unsafe, and other forms of abusive labor;
(c) to codify and pliance with ethical standards of conduct by college
and university licensors, and by manufacturers who use the indicia of those universities and
colleges, including but not limited to standards for living wages, child labor, women’s rights, the
right anize and bargain collectively, and health and safety, in light of the “Key WRC
Principles” set forth in Annex I of these bylaws;
(d) to gather and publicly disseminate information regarding the locations and
conditions of workplaces where merchandise bearing college and university indicia is produced.
(e) Paragraphs (a) through (d) may also apply to such other goods as both the
corporation and the respective affiliated institution shall agree to.