Building a New Global Movement
The Gap and Black Friday
November 24 / 25, 2007
This article originally appeared in Counterpunch
By Daniel Gross- Founding Director, Brandworkers
The Observer's Dan McDougall described their garment shop as, "smeared with filth, corridors flooded with excrement from a flooded toilet." The workers recounted threats and beatings from management to keep their nimble fingers moving. Hours were long and the wages painfully low when they were paid at all.
