USA: Garment Worker Center plan protests outside Ross stores, alleging garment workers are underpaid and working in 'sweatshop conditions'
"Garment Worker Center Organizes Nationwide Ross Protests", 24 October 2019
The Garment Worker Center...is planning a protest...outside of Ross Stores Inc.’s Ross Buying Office at the California Market Center. The protest will be one of 14 protests and pickets in front of Ross Stores properties...
The protests are part of the GWC’s “Pay Up, Ross” campaign...The labor organization alleges that Ross Stores has a long record of underpaying workers and allowing sweatshop conditions in workplaces....
...“Ross does not own or operate manufacturing operations in Los Angeles or elsewhere. The claims made by the Garment Worker Center are between the manufacturers’ subcontractors and their workers, not Ross employees,” a Ross statement said. “Ross Stores fully supports workers’ right to fair wages and safe working conditions.”