Noi Supalai of Thailand will talk about labor rights in collegiate apparel production, including the Worker Rights Consortium's role in promoting those rights and an ongoing dispute in which Nike Corp. has blocked WRC access to factories. (The WRC is Virginia Tech's licensed product labor monitoring organization, which also serves 182 other college and universities.) Currently the proprietor of a small independent tailor shop in Bangkok, until recently Ms. Supalai was a laborer and union organizer at Eagle Speed, a Thai factory producing apparel for Nike, where she helped initiate a movement resulting in an investigation by the Worker Rights Consortium into major violations in health, safety, and unpaid wages.

Also speaking will be Morgan Currier, a national organizer for United Students Against Sweatshops (USAS) who also has served on the Worker Rights Consortium's Executive Board.

Sponsors: USAS@VT, College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences (International Initiatives committee), Center for Peace Studies and Violence Prevention, Department of Sociology, Department of Management, Coalition for Justice (Blacksburg).

Location:	McBryde Hall room 129
Price:	Free and open to the public
Contact:	Dr. Dale Wimberely or Anu Sharma dale.winberley@vt.edu or asha1995@vt.edu
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