Campaign Letter
Congressman Jose E. Serrano
788 Southern Blvd.
Bronx, New York 10455
Dear Jose E. Serrano:
Are there sweatshops in the U.S.? According to the Department of Labor,"Over 50% of U.S. garment factories are sweatshops." Many sweatshops are run in this country's apparel centers: California, New York, Dallas, Miami and Atlanta. There are probably sweatshops in every country in the world - "Anywhere where there is a pool of desperate, exploitable workers. "Non-profit groups have documented."The labor violations of retailers like Philips-Van Heusen and the Gap in factories throughout Latin America.
The typical sweatshop worker is a woman (90% of all sweatshop workers are women). She is young and, often, missing the chance for an education because she must work long hours to support a family. In America, she is often a recent or undocumented immigrant. She is almost always non-union and usually unaware that, even if she is in this country illegally, she still has rights as a worker."
Many of the companies directly running sweatshops are small and don't have much name recognition. However, virtually every retailer in the U.S. has ties to sweatshops. The U.S. is the biggest market for the garment industry and almost all the garment sales in this country are controlled by 5 corporations: Wal-Mart, JC Penney, Sears, The May Company (owns and operates Lord & Taylor, Hecht1s, Filene1s and others) and Federated Department Stores (owns and operates Bloomingdale's, Macy's, Burdine's, Stern's and others).
I am writing to you to because it seems that the congress representatives such as yourself are not doing anything to help the situation and because of that people will die because of the horrible working conditions and like the Triangle factory fire in 1911 that same thing is at risk of happening again. Now more people would die because over the past century this country's population has increased by 300 million people. The population has tripled, making the United States the fastest growing developed country in the world, and the third largest overall. Even though I'm a student my parents think that you are doing a good job as a representative and I trust that you can help make this situation better.
Sincerely,
Nelson Class 805
788 Southern Blvd.
Bronx, New York 10455
Dear Jose E. Serrano:
Are there sweatshops in the U.S.? According to the Department of Labor,"Over 50% of U.S. garment factories are sweatshops." Many sweatshops are run in this country's apparel centers: California, New York, Dallas, Miami and Atlanta. There are probably sweatshops in every country in the world - "Anywhere where there is a pool of desperate, exploitable workers. "Non-profit groups have documented."The labor violations of retailers like Philips-Van Heusen and the Gap in factories throughout Latin America.
The typical sweatshop worker is a woman (90% of all sweatshop workers are women). She is young and, often, missing the chance for an education because she must work long hours to support a family. In America, she is often a recent or undocumented immigrant. She is almost always non-union and usually unaware that, even if she is in this country illegally, she still has rights as a worker."
Many of the companies directly running sweatshops are small and don't have much name recognition. However, virtually every retailer in the U.S. has ties to sweatshops. The U.S. is the biggest market for the garment industry and almost all the garment sales in this country are controlled by 5 corporations: Wal-Mart, JC Penney, Sears, The May Company (owns and operates Lord & Taylor, Hecht1s, Filene1s and others) and Federated Department Stores (owns and operates Bloomingdale's, Macy's, Burdine's, Stern's and others).
I am writing to you to because it seems that the congress representatives such as yourself are not doing anything to help the situation and because of that people will die because of the horrible working conditions and like the Triangle factory fire in 1911 that same thing is at risk of happening again. Now more people would die because over the past century this country's population has increased by 300 million people. The population has tripled, making the United States the fastest growing developed country in the world, and the third largest overall. Even though I'm a student my parents think that you are doing a good job as a representative and I trust that you can help make this situation better.
Sincerely,
Nelson Class 805
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