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- 25-8-1995
Reaction to Plight of Sweatshop Workers Opens a Rift in L.A.’s Thai Community
August 25, 1995|KARL SCHOENBERGER | TIMES STAFF WRITER Reverberations from the notorious sweatshop in El Monte have thrust the local Thai community into a crisis of civic identity, dividing people in sometimes bitter discord that challenges traditional Asian values of harmony and accommodation. Community sources say families and friends are split over whom to sympathize Continue Reading
- 23-8-1995
Sweatshop Workers’ Plight Splits Thai Community
Culture: Some are split over whom to sympathize with: the exploited employees or the family-operated business. August 23, 1995|KARL SCHOENBERGER | TIMES STAFF WRITER They don’t stand out conspicuously like other Asian immigrant groups in Los Angeles: only scattered signs over clusters of restaurants in places such as Hollywood hint at a considerable Thai population–supposedly Continue Reading
- 23-8-1995
Speaking Up for the Silent
HEARTS OF THE CITY: Exploring attitudes and issues behind the news. Thai American activist is using El Monte sweatshop scandal to publicize the problems many of her countrymen face in U.S. August 23, 1995|PETER HONG | TIMES STAFF WRITER The discovery this month of an El Monte sweatshop in which Thai workers were allegedly held Continue Reading
- 13-8-1995
Thai Sweatshop Workers Savor Freedom’s Joys
Labor: The 72 reportedly held as virtual slaves in factory ‘went from hell to heaven,’ one community leader says. Two suspects are still fugitives. August 13, 1995|PATRICK J. McDONNELL | TIMES STAFF WRITER As federal investigators intensified their manhunt for two suspected principals of an El Monte sweatshop, the 72 workers who authorities say were Continue Reading
- 11-8-1995
Thai Workers May Be Released Soon
Sweatshop: Labor and community groups pledge bond for 40 of the immigrants. They have agreed to serve as witnesses against the business’ operators August 11, 1995|PAUL FELDMAN and PATRICK J. McDONNELL | TIMES STAFF WRITERS Many of the 72 undocumented Thai immigrants who worked for years in alleged slave-like conditions at an El Monte sweatshop Continue Reading