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Article

2 Oct 2002

Author:
Ian Stewart, Associated Press

Labor Department lobbies California to pay garment workers

...According to the Oakland office of Sweatshop Watch, an industry watchdog group, more than 200 garment workers -- mostly Chinese immigrant women -- worked for months without pay at Wins of California, Win Fashion and Win Industries of America....Wins made clothing for customers such as the U.S. Army and Air Force, Sears, Wal-Mart and Kmart.