Date of publication: April 15, 2009
Source: Dayton Daily News
Author: Thomas Gnau
Excerpt from article:
DAYTON — An organization fighting what it calls “sweatshops” is praising Dayton-based Lion Apparel for its response to complaints about conditions in a Honduras plant.
In “Subsidizing Sweatshops II,” a report embargoed until today, April 15, SweatFree Communities said its research partners last year fielded complaints from workers, including “below-minimum wages, forced overtime, lack of legally mandated social security payments and pregnancy testing.”
The plant, in Siguatepeque, Honduras, employs about 500 workers, making public employee uniforms for Lion Apparel, headquartered on Poe Avenue, Mason’s Cintas Corp. and Fechheimer Brothers Co., the report said...