van Heerden to Speak at Yale on Protecting Workers' Rights

Auret van Heerden, president and CEO of the Fair Labor Association, will speak Tuesday, March 4, at Yale Law School.  His talk, sponsored by the Orville H. Schell, Jr. Center for International Human Rights, is titled Can Voluntary Private Initiatives Save Labor Law Enforcement? Multinational Enterprises’ Role in Protecting Workers’ Rights.  It begins at 6:10 p.m. in Room 121 and is free and open to the public.

Yale Law School professor Jim Silk ’89, the executive director of the Schell Center, said, “As a founding board member of the Fair Labor Association, I believe it is an innovative approach to improving respect for workers’ rights around the world. I think of it as an increasingly successful experiment, and its increasing effectiveness has been due in large part to Auret’s experience, vision, determination, gift for working with people with divergent backgrounds and interests, and, in particular, ability to improve the organization’s approach in light of learning. Given students’ long interest in combating sweatshops, this will be an important talk at Yale.”

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