Inbrief

A sportswear firm accused of sacking 1800 workers in Honduras because of their union activities has rehired most of the workforce in the wake of a university-based boycott campaign. Russell Athletic has agreed to re-employ 1200 workers who lost their jobs when the company closed the factory last January soon after workers there had unionized. After the closure, almost 100 American universities and colleges terminated or suspended licensing agreements with Russell – some of which were worth over $1million a year each (EP11, issue 1, p3).