sweatshops
The US General Accounting Office defines a sweatshop as a business that regularly violates wage, child labor, health and/or safety laws. While sweatshop abuses in the garment industry have been an issue of public concern for decades, few people know about the sweatshops of the booming electronics industry. Behind the gleaming facade of the high tech industry are thousands of low-paid, mostly immigrant women, who assemble the nuts and bolts of our computers using hundreds of toxic William Carlsen, Staff Writer Thousands of Asian women are forced to work under slavery-like conditions on the U.S. commonwealth island of Saipan making clothing that top garment retailers are selling for huge profits, according to a sweeping lawsuit filed yesterday in San Francisco. In a series of suits filed in state and federal court, human rights groups claim that foreign clothing firms are passing off the apparel as ''Made in the USA.'' Because of Saipan's commonwealth status, retailers have avoided more than $200 million in tariffs.
More Than $1 Billion Sought -- Defendants Include The Gap, Tommy Hilfiger, May Company, Sears Because of their commonwealth status, the islands enjoy favorable U.S. tariff and duty Saipan, one of chain of western Pacific islands known as the Northern Marianas, came under Diego. The firm has successfully litigated numerous consumer lawsuits against such companies
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