What evidence is there that Hanes is guilty of sweatshop practices?
There is overwhelming evidence that Hanes has and continues to violate the rights of its workers at the TOS Dominican factory in the Dominican Republic. The Worker Rights Consortium, a widely respected independent monitoring organization which represents 175 colleges and universities in the U.S. and Canada, published a detailed report on the factory. The report found that the factory has violated workers’ rights in multiple ways, including verbal harassment, forced and under-compensated overtime, failure to pay night employees correctly for severance and vacation, the coercion of workers’ to sign statements giving up the right to complain about the company’s scheduling practices, and egregious violations of workers’ rights to unionize. According to the report, management has spied on union members outside of the factory, interrogated workers about their membership in the union, and fired workers en masse who refuse to resign from the union. In addition, the worker testimonies presented
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