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[Name] Aileen
[Age] UNKNOWN
[Country] USA
[School] MBHS
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March 10, 2007
 Major companies like Gap, Levi Strauss, Sean John, and etc. were claimed to use sweatshop labor to produce their clothing. In Oct. 28, 2003, the director of the anti-sweatshop National Labor Committee, Charles Kernaghan released a report detailing the poor working conditions at the Southeast Textile factories in Choloma, Honduras, where Sean John clothes are made. Workers were being given contaminated water, 11-12 hour shifts, and they were paid 24 cents for every $50 Sean John sweatshirt they sew. (http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/retail/2003-10-28-sean-john_x.htm)
In the year of 1999, Gap was sued by their workers on the island of Saipan in the Western Pacific over the working conditions in their garment factories. Gap had to pay a $20 million settlement after the court heard "indentured" workers, withheld wages and forced overtime. Gap has admitted to the failings and announced that they were canceling contracts with 136 factories because of low pay and horrible working conditions. (http://www.organicconsumers.org/clothes/nike041805.cfm)
Levi Strauss was accused of firing workers in their factories in Haiti and Mexico for being union members, as well as using low wages to prop up profits. No Sweat, a campaign group found evidence of abuses at a factory in Mexico. Levi Strauss sent their own investigators and admitted to the accusations and worked with a contractor to ensure the unions. They also started to buy some of its cotton from organic sources. ( http://www.organicconsumers.org/clothes/nike041805.cfm)
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