Lisa Liu is a garment worker in Oakland, Calif. She recently told her story to Working In These Times contributor David Bacon… I’m a seamstress in a factory with twelve other people. We sew children’s ...

California Governor Gavin Newsom got the state’s closely watched garment worker bill across the finish line. On Monday, the Golden State governor signed into law the Garment Worker Protection Act, ...

Daisy Gonzalez’s mother emigrated to California from Guatemala in the ’80s and landed a job as a garment worker. “My mother was a trimmer and an ironer. I learned how difficult this work was for her ...