Police remove protestors of university-associated labor rights organization
Written by Bob Makin, Staff Writer
NEW BRUNSWICK — At a meeting last week, students were unable convince outgoing Rutgers University President Richard McCormick to disaffiliate with a labor rights organization because he said he thought it was doing a good job with an electronics manufacturer called Foxconn.
But after up to 200 Chinese workers threatened to jump off the roof of a Foxconn plant in protest of wages, according to published reports, 22 students occupied the waiting room outside the president’s office on Friday for several hours before the threat of arrest broke up their sit-in.
Rutgers United Students Against Sweatshops continued to demand disaffiliation with the Fair Labor Association because its efforts to improve labor conditions at Foxconn have failed, said Matt Cordeiro, outgoing student body president.
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