{"id":10388,"date":"2009-08-14T16:01:04","date_gmt":"2009-08-14T21:01:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=10388"},"modified":"2009-08-14T16:08:48","modified_gmt":"2009-08-14T21:08:48","slug":"the-national-labor-committee-sweatshop-scandal-rocks-israel-well-known-israeli-labels-linked-to-musa-sweatshop-in-jordan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=10388","title":{"rendered":"The National Labor Committee: Sweatshop Scandal Rocks Israel &#8211; Well known Israeli labels linked to Musa sweatshop in Jordan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Well known Israeli labels<br \/>\nJump \u2013 Pashut \u2013 Bonita \u2013 Irit<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nlcnet.org\/article.php?id=665\">Linked to Musa sweatshop in Jordan<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Foreign guest workers from Bangladesh were trafficked to Jordan and stripped of their passports at the Musa garment factory in the Al Hasan Industrial park.  The guest workers are housed in crowded, primitive company dorms sleeping 10 to a room in double-level bunk beds.  Water was available just one or two hours a night.  The dorm was infested with bed bugs.  The workers describe the food they were fed as terrible\u2014half-cooked and too little.  Before the Wall Street meltdown led to a global recession, the guest workers at Musa were forced to toil 12 \u00bd to 13 \u00bd hour shifts, from 7:30 a.m. to 8:00 or 9:00 p.m.  All overtime was mandatory.  They were required to work seven days a week, putting in an obligatory 6\u00bd hour shift on Fridays, from 7:30 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.\u2014supposedly their day off.<\/p>\n<p>The workers are paid 75 cents an hour.  Six workers were imprisoned and forcibly deported in July.  Six more workers remain imprisoned.  The workers are terrified and some have gone into hiding.  The Musa factory is owned by two Israeli businessmen, Jack Braun and Moshe Cohen.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nlcnet.org\/article.php?id=660\">Full Report<\/a> \/ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nlcnet.org\/article.php?id=666\">NLC\u2019s Response to recent Jordanian Ministry of Labor Report on The Musa Factory<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well known Israeli labels Jump \u2013 Pashut \u2013 Bonita \u2013 Irit Linked to Musa sweatshop in Jordan Foreign guest workers from Bangladesh were trafficked to Jordan and stripped of their passports at the Musa garment factory in the Al Hasan &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=10388\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-2Hy","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10388"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10388\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10394,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10388\/revisions\/10394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}