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JOURNAL
ONLINE VERSION VOLUME 107 - NUMBER 4 - MAY 1998
Nine U.S. Companies Make Labor Committee List of "Neediest and Greediest"
Esprit, Guess, Inc., J. C. Penney, K-Mart, May Co. Department stores, Nike, Victoria's Secret, Wal-Mart and the Walt Disney Co. have been named to the latest "neediest and greediest" list issued by the National Labor Committee in Support of Worker and Human Rights.

The companies made the list for failing to effectively assure that Third World contractors they use to make goods sold under their labels pay fair wages and provide humane working conditions.

The workers in those contractors' sweatshops are the list's "neediest"; the U.S. companies are its "greediest."

The list is not a call for a boycott nor for taking jobs out of developing countries, said Charles Kernaghan, the National Labor Committee's executive director. Rather, the list is "a challenge" to U.S. corporations it names to "do the right thing," Kernaghan said.

Reprinted from Label Letter January/February 1998.

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