Most of the workers spoke Chinese. Marks, the Gap spokesman, said he could not comment about conditions at the Sako factory. In June, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission filed two lawsuits on behalf of Abad and fired pregnant workers. In a separate action, Gap and 17 other companies were named in a class-action lawsuit filed in January on behalf of Saipan workers who allegedly were denied overtime pay. Nine retailers and clothing companies involved in related litigation have agreed to settle complaints.
Gap continues to fight.
Abad said Gap was singled out for the campus campaign launched in late October because it was the largest customer of Saipan factories. Nike Inc. At the time, the footwear company was dogged by charges that contractors in Vietnam and Indonesia ran unsafe factories and underpaid workers. Still the target of labor and campus activists, Nike said in November it was offering students the chance to inspect its contract factories during spring break. Meanwhile, the pressure against Gap is heating up. We shouldn't let this happen.