Last week, Student Labor Action Coalition members planned to storm the Chancellor John Wiley's office in protest to what they perceived as his reneging on the Designated Suppliers Program, an initiative intended to direct the purchase of university apparel toward union-friendly factories.
Today, the committee plans to crash the chancellor's lunch hour again—this time with balloons and cake in hand, in celebration of the UW-Madison administration's cooperation with SLAC on the matter.
""They've been responsive to our demand for a strong Designated Suppliers Program that makes the brands stick with union factories. We had a good meeting with them and basically we're having a celebration tomorrow,"" said SLAC member Nick Limbeck.
Limbeck said SLAC was confident it and the university had reached an agreement in good faith over contested provisions of the DSP, including the university agreeing promote the initiative at a meeting with other universities and adopting the plan for more than three years.
Though the university has yet to officially endorse the agreement, Limbeck said he hopes it will happen before the meeting with other universities Oct. 23 and Oct. 24.
