Tag Archives: Sweatshop
- 24-10-1997
Sweatshop Workers to Get $2 Million
Labor: Five firms settle with 150 Thai and Latino employees of notorious El Monte apparel facility and its sister plant in L.A. October 24, 1997|GEORGE WHITE and PATRICK McDONNELL | TIMES STAFF WRITERS Five major companies, including Mervyn’s and Montgomery Ward, have agreed to pay more than $2 million to 150 workers who labored under Continue Reading
- 11-9-1997
Plan for Sweatshop Exhibition Draws Fire
Museums: Apparel industry says Smithsonian re-creation of El Monte facility would be unfair. September 11, 1997|GEORGE WHITE | STAFF WRITER In an echo of the politically charged uproar that killed the Smithsonian Institution’s planned 1995 exhibit on the dropping of the atom bomb, several apparel and retailing industry groups are protesting a new plan by Continue Reading
- 5-9-1995
Freed Thais Offer Thanks During Labor Day Rally
Workers: Sweatshop was ‘like coming to hell,’ one says. Union, state officials urge tougher enforcement of laws in garment industry. September 05, 1995|JEFF LEEDS | TIMES STAFF WRITER With union placards in their hands and a still-unfamiliar sun overhead, 55 of the Thai garment workers liberated from an El Monte sweatshop last month offered tearful 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
- 10-8-1995
INS Accused of Blocking Probe of Sweatshops
Labor: Agent says superiors canceled 1991 inquiry into shops that may have used forced help. INS says investigation by another agency found no wrongdoing. The federal special agent who is now assisting in the prosecution of the operators of an El Monte sweatshop contends in papers filed with the government that in 1991 his supervisors Continue Reading