Alleged sweatshop linked to OSU goods

Alleged sweatshop linked to OSU goods

Ohio State University and a division of the Dallas Cowboys, a potential partner in apparel licensing for OSU, find themselves the target this week of new allegations of allowing sweatshop labor to be used to produce logo apparel.

The allegations come from a longtime labor-rights organizer who counts Kathie Lee Gifford and Sean Combs among the celebrities he’s shamed into halting the use of overseas sweatshops to make clothing.

Charles Kernaghan and the group he leads, the Institute for Global Labour and Human Rights, issued a report this week saying workers in a factory in El Salvador have been laboring in sweatshop conditions to make licensed goods for the Cowboys, OSU and many other professional and college teams.

The report alleges, among other things, that workers are locked in the factory, where temperatures often exceed 100 degrees, and are paid only 78 cents an hour.

http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/business/2011/10/15/alleged-sweatshop-linked-to-osu-goods.html

OSU paid Kasich $4K per classroom session



By Laura A. Bischoff, Columbus Bureau Updated 9:25 AM Monday, August 16, 2010 COLUMBUS — As a candidate for governor, Republican John Kasich has called on colleges and universities to cut costs and force professors to teach more courses.


Yet for seven years Kasich served as a “presidential fellow” at his alma mater, Ohio State University, in a role that paid him the equivalent of about $4,000 per campus visit.

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Rob Nichols, Kasich’s campaign spokesman, said: “John was paid in alignment with what OSU thought his teaching was worth. They thought his work there was valuable — they kept asking him back.”


The job was among the many hats Kasich wore in the years after he left Congress in 2000. Although other politicians, including Republican Senate candidate Rob Portman, have taught courses at OSU for no cost, Kasich’s role paid him $50,000 a year.

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http://www.journal-news.com/news/hamilton-news/osu-paid-kasich-4k-per-classroom-session-861545.html?cxtype=rss_local-news

for the pretentious ones that went there?