Posted on 04/07/2023 6:14:23 PM PDT by cuz1961
On March 22, the Department of Labor released a report on the garment industry in Southern California. Its contents are shocking. Inspectors visited 50 randomly selected garment factories — contractors that make clothes for big-name brands — and discovered a staggering list of violations. They found the following:
80% of contractors violated the 1938 Fair Labor Standards Act 64% didn’t keep accurate pay or working time records More than half paid workers off the books and falsified (or didn’t keep) records 32% paid per-piece rates, in violation of state law 80% paid below minimum wage — in one case just $1.58 per hour Marissa Nuncio, the director of the Los Angeles-based Garment Worker Center, says she regularly hears about wage theft — where workers aren’t paid all of what they’re due — from her members. She said the report highlighted “familiar patterns of exploitation” in the industry and called for better enforcement of the law.
The garment industry in Los Angeles is the largest in the US; around 83% of US-manufactured clothes are produced there. However, the industry is notorious for violating the standards we expect for US workers. It relies heavily on migrant labor — in 2021, 42% of garment industry workers were immigrants. While Labor Department inspectors don’t check immigration status, it’s widely suspected many are illegals, who are easy to exploit because they don’t want to attract the attention of government agencies.
Now, federal officials say they want to make businesses more accountable. Unfortunately, that isn’t going to happen as long as unscrupulous employers have an endless flow of illegal labor to hire from. To protect workers and create well-paying jobs for Americans,
the administration needs to end illegal immigration.
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I did the sweatshop labor thing in electronics recycling and resale.
It was the only job I could find at that time, the era of the Wun.
“Shocking”— yeah, right. Wide open, zero control southern border and SEVEN million uneducated peasants flow in under Brandon. Is anybody “shocked” that they would wind up in “sweatshops”
I’ll bet our “sweatshops” are paying them a LOT more than in Viejo Mexico.
They don’t have air conditioning?
Can you say C-H-I-N-A BUSINESS MODEL???
DEMOCRATS!...Party of the working class! Look for the Union Label!
One more industry conveniently on the chopping block.
It’s looking more and more like Obama’s job wasn’t done.
“It relies heavily on migrant labor — in 2021, 42% of garment industry workers were immigrants. While Labor Department inspectors don’t check immigration status, it’s widely suspected many are illegals, who are easy to exploit because they don’t want to attract the attention of government agencies”.
Immigrants. The new slave. They don’t even have to pay for the boat to bring ‘em over!
As Paul Harvey used to say, and that’s ‘the rest of the story’.
Newsom’s California is a slave state
In progressive Kalifornia!? Say it isn’t so! Any two-some Newsome needs to get on this!
Made in the USA not so wonderful eh?
Thanks to our open border. Why didn’t we see this coming? /s
They’ve been getting away with this for 50 yrs here in LA. The worker/slave/peons are nearly 100% illegals from south of the border.
All of this is happening in Gavin Newsom’s state. President Trump needs to take note.
Finally something directly attributed to glowBull warming.
Rising temperatures cause workers to sweat, ergo more sweatshops
3 million illegals a year have to go somewhere
If its not sweatshops, its brothels.
Now look at silicon vallley
These employers need to experience the joys of anal sex.
There you have the real reason why our borders remain open. There is actually a law that says hiring illegal aliens is 'ILLEGAL'. It has not been enforced since the 1990s by either party.
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