Meet The Workers Who Sewed Donald Trump Clothing For A Few Dollars A Day
Meet The Workers Who Sewed Donald Trump Clothing For A Few Dollars A Day
Employees at a textile factory that made Trump shirts report dangerous, abusive conditions — harsh even for Honduras.
Karla Zabludovsky
BuzzFeed News World Correspondent, Mexico
Daniel Wagner
BuzzFeed News Reporter
posted on Jul. 22, 2016, at 11:38 a.m.
Reporting From Honduras
CHOLOMA, Honduras — Hour after hour, the workers bent over sewing machines in a sweltering factory here. Despite indoor temperatures above 100 degrees, they said, they limited themselves to small sips of water for fear that even bathroom breaks would cause them to miss their production quotas and lose desperately needed pay.
“You have to put up with it to have an income,” said one supervisor whose white hair was pulled back in a loose bun. She asked not to be named for fear of being fired from her job. In recent years, she said, that job included sewing shirts emblazoned with Donald Trump’s brand.
As a candidate, Trump has campaigned on a platform of bringing American jobs back to the U.S. “Craftsmen and tradespeople and factory workers have seen the jobs they loved shift thousands and thousands of miles away,” he said during a speech in Pennsylvania last month. “Now it’s time for the American people to take back their future.”
But when it comes to his own businesses, Trump has for years relied on cheap labor in overseas factories to manufacture clothing for his line of men’s suits, shirts, and ties sold under the Trump label available at Amazon and, until last year, Macy’s.
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