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Former sweatshop worker from Saipan speaks about conditions

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Uploaded by on Jul 19, 2008

Chi Abad (sp?), a former sweatshop worker from Saipan (a U.S. Territory near Guam) and now an organizer for Global Exchange, speaks about working conditions and non-enforcement of U.S. labor laws at a July 12 workers rights board hearing in Philadelphia.

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  • I live in Saipan. The factories are closed now, but the contract workers are still being treated like shit. That is why the Feds took over labor and immigration here. I know lots of people who went through this and I have been in these barracks. This should be a warning because the right wants to destroy our unions in the US and turn the rest of the US into "A perfect petry dish for capitalism" like Saipan as Jack Abramoff described.

  • i have geo hwk for dis, very complicated

  • ty 4 helpin meh on hw XD

  • I've voted with the religious right but now I see how racist they are. How about those Tom Delay / Abramoff forced abortions in Saipan. You notice it's okay for rel. right white people to dehumanize everyone and it's okay.

    Ralph Reed who was indicted was on listener supported radio talking down on Obama. You white frigin christians hate Obama and all black people. The republican party is the forced abortion in Saipan party. White injustice is okay with the religious right. I went to their churc

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