Tag: American Apparel
Attorney for American Apparel
by pcb123 on Oct.25, 2009, under PROCESS, RADIO, SOCIETY, VIDEO
My current project is a radio piece (with supplementary video) about the recent firing of more than 1,500 undocumented garment workers at American Apparel. A government audit of personnel files forced the exodus. This has been a favored approach in the Obama Administration, in contrast to Bush’s detention raids.
Peter Schey is representing American Apparel as part of his private practice. He’s also the Executive Director of the Center for Human Rights and Constitutional Law and has a suit pending class action suit seeking an end to immigration raids. I visited him at the center to talk about workplace enforcement under Obama.
SCHEY excerpt from Patrick Burke on Vimeo.
This is, of course, just a sample of that long interview. More background on the story is laid out on spot.us.
