COLA
COLA Letter Advocates for Regulation of Nike Factory Conditions
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COLA wants to ensure that Cornell is “the best labor school in the nation” and is “at the forefront of encouraging human rights for workers around the world,” the letter says.
COLA
Cornell Organization for Labor Action Protests Nike Labor Practices
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“This problem directly affects our school so who better to take up the cause than the students,” Habr said. “We [students] are the ones buying the apparel. We have the power and the responsibility to take action.”
Amnesty International at Cornell
Kotlikoff Responds to University Assembly Resolution on Labor Practices at Weill Medical Qatar
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“I anticipate further action on this issue, both from the folks at the Cornell Organization for Labor Action who launched this campaign and the Cornell community at large,” Hanna said.
amnesty international
Student Groups Call for Release of Imprisoned Qatari Poet in Letter
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Ajami received a 15-year sentence in February of 2013 after he was tried for unknown charges. He had previously been arrested for writing poems insulting the then-ruling Emir of Qatar and supporting the Tunisian revolution that began the Arab Spring, according to the letter.
Weill Cornell Medicine in Qatar
Garrett’s Response to Issues in Qatar Frustrates Students
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Clarification appended
Students from the Cornell Organization for Labor Action are frustrated by the administration’s lack of action, after President Elizabeth Garrett acknowledged through a letter on Nov. 9, but did not approve, a Student Assembly resolution that calls for an investigation of labor practices at Weill Cornell Medicine in Qatar. Resolution 16 —”Addressing Labor Issues in Qatar” — was sponsored by COLA and adopted by the S.A. in a 24-1-0 vote on Oct. 16. The resolution, which was then conveyed to Garrett on Oct.
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COLA Holds Weill Workers Teach-In, Responds to Garrett Letter
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Approximately 50 students gathered for Cornell Organization for Labor Action’s teach-in in Warren Hall Wednesday, which aimed to raise awareness about alleged human rights violations at Weill Cornell Medicine in Education City, Qatar. Following the presentation, the students marched to President Elizabeth Garrett’s office to deliver a letter demanding a third-party investigation of Cornell’s Qatar campus. Wednesday afternoon’s teach-in and letter drop are the latest actions in COLA’s Weill Workers Suffer campaign, which demands that the University conducts an independent investigation of the labor practices at Cornell’s Qatar campus and that it upholds its mission of fair labor practices regardless of location. COLA has had difficulties investigating the workers’ conditions since any contact with human rights organizations would result in the workers’ deportations, according to COLA member Hadiyah Chowdhury ’18. However, a report about labor practices on Qatari satellite campuses that was sent to COLA from the International Trade Union Confederation in January 2015 has further motivated their campaign, she added.
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Students, Staff Rally For Fair Contract Negotiations
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Yesterday at noon, about three dozen Cornell workers and students gathered in front of Day Hall carrying signs that read “Cornell workers deserve a fair contract” and cheered as passing buses and cars honked in agreement.
“What do we want? Fair contract! When do we want it? Now!” yelled participants in the rally. “When working families are under attack what do we do? Stand up, fight back!”