From: Alexis Downs [mailto:adowns@ucok.edu] Sent: Monday, October 29, 2001 1:31 PM To: roundup@nmsu.edu Subject: WRC

To the editor:

I've been reading the recent exchange of letters regarding the WRC and the FLA. Unfortunately, the agenda of the FLA is questionable.  I examined the FLA website, looking for names of the Board members. I attach a copy of those names.
Because the Board members represent corporate interests, I have to conclude that the FLA represents corporate interests, and not the interests of laborers.  Hence I think the independence of the FLA as a monitoring agency is questionable.


I invite readers to look at the names of WRC Board members.  You'll see a difference.

Sincerely,


Alexis Downs,
Ph.D. Department of Management
College of Business Administration
University of Central Oklahoma
Edmond OK  73034 USA
 

ATTACHED LIST OF FLA BOARD OF DIRECTORS INCLUDES:

Doug Cahn Reebok International Ltd. Bob Durkee Princeton University Bob Edgar National Council of Churches Carol Kaesebier Notre Dame Dusty Kidd Nike, Inc. Linda Golodner National Consumers League Pharis Harvey International Labor Rights Fund Art Heffner Phillips Van Heusen Corp. David Husselbee adidas-Salomon Bruce Moats Levi Strauss & Co. Michael Posner Lawyers Committee for Human Rights Jim Silk Orville H. Schell Center for Human Rights Rut Tufts UNC-Chapel Hill Bob Zane Liz Claiborne

Check for yourself http://www.fairlabor.org/html/affiliates/board.html