Student group for labor and social justice.
Meetings
Meets at the Michigan Union on Monday nights.
Web site
Last updated 2009.
History
In 1999 a group of students occupied the U of M President Lee Bollinger's office calling for the University to guarantee basic rights to the workers who made its apparel. In response, President Bollinger instituted a Code of Conduct. The code specifically detailed the standards that corporations like Nike and Adidas should adhere to when producing apparel with the Michigan logo. Another sit-in won factory disclosure months later. For the first time, the university called for corporations to reveal the names of factories that produced Michigan apparel so they could be monitored.
In the news
Students from SOLE set into motion the Michigan Coca-cola boycott. See the Detroit Free Press story.
- 12 students arrested in Fleming, April 2007; sit-in demanding that the University toughen its labor standards for suppliers producing University-licensed apparel.
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