Marking the eve of Human Rights Day, National Labor Committee organized hundreds of NYU students to march through campus yesterday. The marchers were calling on fellow NYU students, Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen, to sign a pledge guaranteeing that any women sewing their garments sold at Walmart will be granted the legal right to maternity leave with benefits.

Charles Kernaghan, Executive Director of the National Labor Committee.

"Walmart is the biggest sweatshop abuser in the world today. Walmart says it has moral values, but Walmart has no moral compass. In Bangladesh today, women sewing Walmart clothing are working from eight o'clock in the morning to ten o'clock at night - fourteen hours a day, seven days a week with only ten days off a year. They're getting thirteen cents an hour. It would take a worker in Bangladesh one hundred and nine years to earn enough money to go to NYU for one year."

The twins' attorney replied yesterday to Kernaghan with a letter stating that the Olsens were "immediately responsive upon learning of the issue" and agreed to sign the pledge.