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Donkees

(31,406 posts) Fri Sep 10, 2021, 07:45 PM Sep 2021

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EXPOSED: Los Angeles Sweatshops

Sep 8, 2021

LA garment workers make as little as $3/hour and work up to 15 hours a day in sweatshop-like conditions to sew clothes for Fashion Nova, Forever 21, and other brands. But the Garment Worker Protection Act in CA could hold fashion brands accountable.

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EXPOSED: Los Angeles Sweatshops (Original Post) Donkees Sep 2021 OP

Wait, we didn't know that garment sweatshops existed, staffed by trafficed individuals who are kept OAITW r.2.0 Sep 2021 #1

been going on for decades with the knowledge of governors democratic and republican nt msongs Sep 2021 #2

k&r for visibility alwaysinasnit Sep 2021 #3

Thanks for posting, the shameful sweatshop industry is shocking appalachiablue Sep 2021 #4

Sociopath CEO's I_UndergroundPanther Sep 2021 #5

OAITW r.2.0

(24,483 posts)

1. Wait, we didn't know that garment sweatshops existed, staffed by trafficed individuals who are kept

Reply to Donkees (Original post)

Fri Sep 10, 2021, 07:49 PM

Sep 2021

hidden from the above economy?

msongs

(67,405 posts)

2. been going on for decades with the knowledge of governors democratic and republican nt

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Fri Sep 10, 2021, 07:51 PM

Sep 2021

alwaysinasnit

(5,066 posts)

3. k&r for visibility

Reply to Donkees (Original post)

Fri Sep 10, 2021, 07:55 PM

Sep 2021

appalachiablue

(41,131 posts)

4. Thanks for posting, the shameful sweatshop industry is shocking

Reply to Donkees (Original post)

Fri Sep 10, 2021, 08:10 PM

Sep 2021

I_UndergroundPanther

(12,470 posts)

5. Sociopath CEO's

Reply to Donkees (Original post)

Fri Sep 10, 2021, 08:38 PM

Sep 2021

Wanting to pay nothing to those workers they exploit . Business has been off leash for too long. They are cruel for profit.

Fuck capitalism.

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