By
Ryan Gabrielson
Arizona Daily Wildcat
SAS members plan rally on administration lawn to express anti-FLA sentiment.
The University of Arizona Human and Labor Rights Task Force will meet with university President Peter Likins today to discuss the UA's involvement in the Fair Labor Association.
On Aug. 7 the task force recommended to Likins that the UA withdraw from the FLA.
"We indicated in the cover letter (of the recommendation) we'd be willing to meet with him," said Andy Silverman, law professor and member of the task force.
An anti-FLA rally by SAS members will take place on the administration lawn at 12:30 p.m.
Likins opted to meet with the task force to discuss their decision rather than come to a decision on the Aug. 16 deadline given to him by SAS members to announce whether he intends to keep the UA in the FLA.
There were four mandates in the resolution, which ended a 10-day sit-in by Students Against Sweatshops members in Likins' office in April 1999, that the FLA had to meet in its code of conduct for the UA to remain a member.
Nike has only met one mandate, the disclosure of factory locations. In January, when Sam Brown Jr. was named the FLA's first executive director, he said the monitoring system would be monitoring factories in six months.
No factory monitoring has been completed by either the FLA or the Worker Rights Consortium, created by the United Students Against Sweatshops to be a university-based alternative to the FLA.
The UA has maintained a dual membership since June, when Likins followed the task force's recommendation and joined the WRC.
Although Likins will meet with the task force today, an announcement concerning the FLA is not expected, said Rachael Wilson, SAS spokeswoman.
"It's pretty unlikely it'll happen tomorrow," Wilson, a psychology graduate student, said yesterday.
