In August 1995 the nation was outraged by news that 72 Thai immigrants worked under slave-like conditions. Local and Federal law enforcement agents conducted a raid on this sweatshop in El Monte, California, just east of Los Angeles.
The immigrants worked for 69 cents an hour, locked in an apartment complex surrounded by razor wire. Workers were threatened with rape and murder if they stopped working. After the raid, Labor Secretary Robert Reich launched a crusade against sweatshops.
New York City sweatshops operate behind locked doors. 4,500 of New York City's 7,000 garment factories are sweatshops. Sweatshops are also common in other cities with large immigrant communities. Greater Los Angeles is a major example. Nike and Disney are just some of the compaies that have sweatshops. In Nike sweatshops workers are paid $1.50-$2.60 for each pair of shoes that they make. The shoes are sent to the United States and sold for 50 times that amount. Workers are paid 7 cents for each t-shirt that they make. The t-shirts are sold at Wal-Mart for $10.95.
We have to stop the sweatshops before they get mofe out of hand.

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