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Article

24 Sep 2002

Author:
Kerry O'Brien, The 7:30 Report, ABC

Sweatshop labour [Australia]

The long-running trade union campaign to highlight claims of widespread sweatshop labour at home hit the news again today with 30 clothing manufacturers finding themselves in the Federal Court facing allegations of breached awards...a new independent study suggests a wider world of worker intimidation, rates of pay as low as a dollar an hour and even child labour.