{"id":2999,"date":"2021-08-21T02:20:15","date_gmt":"2021-08-21T02:20:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/NewsUpNow.org\/?p=2999"},"modified":"2024-02-08T00:53:13","modified_gmt":"2024-02-08T00:53:13","slug":"garment-manufacturers-worry-california-bill-threatens-golden-window-to-reshore-jobs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsupnow.org\/news\/garment-manufacturers-worry-california-bill-threatens-golden-window-to-reshore-jobs\/","title":{"rendered":"Garment manufacturers worry California bill threatens \u2018golden window\u2019 to reshore jobs"},"content":{"rendered":"


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The pandemic brought some garment manufacturing jobs back to the U.S., particularly Los Angeles. But the clothing industry says a bill meant to protect garment workers’ pay could move jobs offshore again.<\/p>\n

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A bill that would have fundamentally changed how garment workers are paid had enough votes to pass during last year’s legislative session, its supporters say, but ran out of time<\/a> during the session’s frenzied final hours.<\/p>\n

This year, the Garment Worker Protection Act is back as Senate Bill 62<\/a>, and Sen. Maria Elena Durazo, a Los Angeles Democrat and its sponsor, is on a barnstorming tour across Southern California to gin up support ahead of this year’s session.<\/p>\n

“I’m proud to be a Californian,†she told an audience in Venice. “One thing I’m not proud of is the exploitation and the wage theft that’s taking place in Los Angeles day after day after day.â€<\/p>\n