Both illegal and legal Latinos are employed in the downtown Los Angeles Sweatshop District. I see them ride the number fifty-three Metro bus via Downtown every morning. I even talk to them about the illegal, inhumane abuses they work in and must tolerate. The majority of these sweatshop workers are Latina women from the ages of fifteen through thirty. Silence is valuable and a greater priority is given to Capitalism.
Sweatshops operate at the expense of worker's rights.
On American soil, cheap labor has become more important than worker's rights. The protesters were blocking the Santa Monica Promenade entrance to expose the truths about Gap company sweatshop abuse. Eyewitnesses like Tom Rella and other sweatshop-protesting workers have revealed the atrocious conditions existing inside these sweatshops. It is their hope that American authorities and citizens will do something to stop the injustices of greedy sweatshop owners and the rich companies to bring fairness to the lives of these laborers. To see why it is humanity's responsibility to help sweatshop workers in their struggle, it is necessary to know what working in a sweatshop is like.