An AI-generated video mocking downcast American workers in a post-tariffs world has been circulating on Chinese and U.S. social media. The video shows overweight employees in a textiles factory, ...

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Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook On April 24, the deadliest garment factory disaster to date occurred in Savar, Bangladesh. The ...

Maliwan Radomphon Clinton was promised a livable wage, which she could use to help send money back to her family in Thailand. She would work to pay her visa off. She, like many other workers, were ...

Maliwan Radomphon Clinton, 54, says the image of the sweatshop compound where she was confined in El Monte, California, three decades ago is difficult to shake. She remembers the sewing machines she ...