3 articles relating to Garment Workers, all by the same authors: Sewing for the American dream (A1, A12-A13): The experiences of several garment workers in Seattle. Multitude of 'gray areas' make labor laws hard to enforce (A12): The difficulty of…
It is hard for home-sewing contractors and factory workers to be ensured that they are paid fair wages and work in decent working conditions because of the 'gray areas' in the laws. Some companies in Seattle use homeworkers.
Seamstresses say that manufacturers and contractors have been lowering the wage per hour for the same amount of work. The federal government blames competition in the garment-indutrsy for the lowering of wages.
