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A planned protest this past September turned into a celebratory press conference after the governor signed into law the Garment Worker Protection Act (SB 62), the result of years of organizing by the Garment Worker Center (GWC) and its allies. This legislation for garment worker protections is the first in the country to ban piece-rate wages. It also strengthens an earlier anti-sweatshop law by holding brands liable for labor violations in the factories that make the clothes they sell, regardless of how many layers of subcontracts they employ. Garment workers and their advocates and supporters, including nonprofits and socially responsible manufacturers, cheered outside the California Market Center where they had planned to escalate their campaign, some having planned to risk arrest. Francisco Tzul, who has sewed clothing in Los Angeles for decades, said it was the best day of his life.
Tzul works in an industry where subminimum wages are the norm. Though today’s minimum wage in Los Angeles is $15 per hour, garment workers receive an average of $5 per hour and as little as $1.25 per hour producing for Los Angeles’s $5 billion garment industry. Randomly inspecting almost a hundred LA garment factories, the Department of Labor found that 85% violated wage...
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