Fruit of the Loom protest over anti-union stand

Major student organisations in US and UK announce day of protest over clothing company's human rights violations in Honduras. They will show the magnitude of support for the boycott with a flood of phone calls, emails and colourful protests at company locations. This Friday, university students in the US and the UK will hold their first-ever "Transatlantic Day of Action" targeting sweatshop abuses by billionaire investor Warren Buffett's clothing company, Fruit of the Loom-Russell Corporation. They are protesting at the closure of a factory after a union was formed, with a supervisor saying 'The workers will starve because they got involved in a union', according to independent reports. [1] Students from People & Planet [2] and United Students Against Sweatshops [3] are targeting Russell Corporation and its parent company, Fruit of the Loom, over high-profile worker rights violations at the company's factories in Honduras, where Russell is the country's largest private employer. Nearly 100 universities are already boycotting the company, in the largest universities boycott in history: USAS has pushed 91 US universities to sever ties, including the Universities of California, Duke and Georgetown; and the Universities of York, Edinburgh, Birmingham and Birmingham City University in the UK.