Sweatshop slave: Former El Monte garment worker recalls imprisonment, forced labor

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Tuesday, August 4, 2020
Former El Monte sweatshop slave recalls ordeal
A former worker who was imprisoned with 71 others at an El Monte sweatshop is recalling the ordeal 25 years later as the Museum of Social Justice and the Thai Community Development Center prepares to display a forced-labor exhibit in LA.When authorities raided a row of townhouses in El Monte they found 72 garment workers from Thailand who were imprisoned and forced to work in terrible conditions. A former worker is recalling the ordeal.