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Lotus Chau

 

Attached to Sing Tao Daily

Workers are in class, factories are empty: Owners charge September 11th Fund ESL program hurts Chinatown’s garment industry

By Lotus Chau, Sing Tao Daily, 15 March 2003. Translated from Chinese by Xiaoqing Rong.

Owners charge that the September 11th fund—which funds ESL classes for displaced garment workers—is harming the garment industry. Because of an increase in orders for army uniforms, factories have more work than their reduced staffs can handle, owners say. more>