A new anti-sweatshop strategy.(introduced by Department of Labor)

From: WWD | Date: September 4, 1997| Author: Ramey, Joanna | Copyright information

New Secretary of Labor Alexis Herman introduced a new sweatshop policy that is far more conciliatory than that of her predecessor, Robert Reich. Unlike Reich, who used negative publicity to try to get clothing makers to stop using contractors that ruthlessly exploit garment workers, many of them immigrants, Herman's new low-key policy emphasizes the discrete sharing of data. The softer stand of the Department of Labor is appreciated by clothing makers in California, site of some of the worse ...

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