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Article

24 Jan 2011

Author:
National Labor Committee [USA]

Ocean Sky: Workers Paid 8 Cents for Each $25 NFL T-shirt They Sew

Women at the Ocean Sky sweatshop in El Salvador are paid just eight cents for each $25 NFL T-shirt...Workers [on] NFL, Reebok [part of Adidas], Puma, Old Navy (GAP), Columbia, Talbots and Penguin (Munsingwear) [part of Perry Ellis] are drenched in their own sweat...Drinking water is filthy...They are cursed at...Garments hurled in their faces...Surveillance cameras monitor the workers' every move...Overtime is forced...Wages of 72 to 92 cents an hour-one quarter of what a family needs to survive... Anyone even asking for their rights will be immediately fired and blacklisted.

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