Labor
Our work focuses on curtailing economic exploitation of vulnerable workers, particularly immigrants, and on making workplaces safer.
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Return of the Sweatshop
State Senator Franz Leichter
Series of reports in the early 1980s revealed that tens of thousands of immigrant workers were being victimized by wage and safety violations in hundreds of garment sweatshops that had opened in recent years. Led to labor law enforcement crackdown.
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