Victoria's Secret thrives off Jordan sweatshop

A workers-rights group said a Jordanian subcontractor that makes clothing for popular lingerie brand Victoria's Secret is abusing its workers, cheating them of wages and imprisoning them, the America in Arabic news agency reported.

The National Labor Committee (NLC), one of the biggest workers' advocacy groups in the world, said D.K. Garment in Irbid, 70 kms north of the capital Amman, is technically holding its workers prisoner after taking away their residency permits.
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I think I posted something about this a few weeks prior. This is such a shame but when you think about it, a lot of these clothing retail giants are making their profits by abusing the so-called "cheap labor". At the end of the day, its people we're talking about and they should be treated as such.