Category: Business News

The Guardian

Outbreaks have hit factories including LA Apparel, ordered to shut down amid 300 cases and four deathsFrancisco Tzul has worked in the Los Angeles garment industry for eight years, sewing clothing on cramped factory floors and struggling to get by on low wages. An undocumented immigrant from Guatemala, Tzul found himself out of work when the pandemic hit in March. So when he heard in May that LA Apparel, a brand run by the former CEO of American Apparel, was hiring workers to make masks, he jumped at the chance.“Here’s an opportunity, a golden opportunity, I told myself,”