Sentence examples for sweatshops like from inspiring English sources

These plants were not sweatshops like the crowded ill-lighted factory lofts in which garment workers of the United States, the United Kingdom, and western European countries once worked 12 and 14 hours a day.

My grandmother bragged about how she had bought it before there was a Walmart in the city, which seemed appropriate considering Walmart goes with sweatshops like owls go with my vagina.

And there's something disconcerting and sweatshop-like about mice being trapped in containers to sniff air.

Anderson reports that audits by the Department of Labor have found "sweatshop-like conditions" in ninety-three per cent of the garment factories in Southern California.

Apple has taken various measures in response to questions on whether its products are made in sweatshop-like conditions, since about a dozen suicides from 2010 at Foxconn.

Ruben Rosalez, a regional administrator for the department, said that investigators had discovered workers at dozens of contractors producing clothes for Forever 21 under "sweatshop-like conditions" since 2008.

"The City of New York should not be lending its taxpayer support to sweatshop-like conditions which profit from subhuman business practices," Mr. Vallone said at a news conference at City Hall.

While other farmworkers'-rights organizations offer health care or legal representation, the coalition holds weekly meetings, conducts weekend "leadership trainings," makes outreach trips throughout the southeastern states, stages hunger strikes, and has launched a boycott of Taco Bell, in an effort to raise wages for tomato pickers working in what it calls "sweatshop-like conditions".

The truth is a lot of us probably wear clothing made by people working in sweatshop-like conditions.

According to the U.S. Department of Labor, Forever 21 clothing is being produced in "sweatshop-like conditions" by workers in Los Angeles-area factories, the agency said in a press release on Thursday.

Apple agreed to an investigation by the independent Fair Labor Association to stem criticism that its products were built in sweatshop-like conditions.