The newly-minted division of Sears has moved quickly to settle a dispute at its El Salvador operation after a number of universities severed licensing contracts with the apparel-maker under pressure from the Workers Rights Consortium, the Fair Labor Association, and the Students for Environmental and Economic Justice.

Columbia University, Duke University, University of Michigan, Northwestern University and the University of Wisconsin were just a few of the schools that yanked contracts under pressure from the student and worker’s rights groups.

As part of the deal, Lands End will reportedly provide $53,000 in machinery and materials to help a new “union-friendly” factory get started in El Salvador. LE is also expected to provide training for factory workers and management. The new factory, Just Garments, is expected to employ many of the workers from the company’s former factory, Primo S.A. de C.V. The WRC and others said that workers attempting to organize the Primo factory had been blacklisted.

Duke and Northwestern have already reinstated their contracts with Lands’ End and others are expected to quickly follow.

The WRC and other groups are part of the same consortium that conspired with New Era’s labor unions last year to force that company into approving a new union contract. That action almost forced New Era into moving production offshore even as it struggled to keep American workers employed.

Chris Mordi, a spokesman for Lands' End, said the company was “glad to have reached a settlement and that we can move forward.”