They also are pressuring universities to stop licensing college logos to companies that employ sweatshop labor. Student organizations are getting help and encouragement from labor rights groups and unions. Global Exchange, a San Francisco human rights organization, for example, paid to print 4,000 anti-Gap posters and ship them to campuses. It also organized the speaking tour for Abad. In other words, money talks.
Gap is one of the largest and most profitable clothing companies in the world.
Campus chic is its stock in trade. Gap Inc., which also runs the Banana Republic and Old Navy chains, posted a 32 percent gain in earnings for the third quarter, ended Oct. 30. He said that if a factory violates the company's code of conduct, it could lose its Gap business. He would not elaborate. It doesn't make sense to do business with those kinds of factories.