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Article: KERNAGHAN, WORKER DETAIL DIDDY CLAIMS.(National Labor Comittee chairman Charles Kernaghan details sweatshop charges against Sean John clothing company)
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- WWD
- Article date:
- October 29, 2003
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NEW YORK -- Charles Kernaghan wants to make Sean "P. Diddy" Combs sweat a little.
Kernaghan, director of the National Labor Committee, kicked off a new anti-sweatshop campaign on Tuesday against the hip-hop star's apparel company. But he argued that Combs could use his celebrity standing to help in the battle against abusive working conditions in garment plants.
Speaking at a press conference in front of the still-under-construction Sean John store on Fifth Avenue in Midtown, Kernaghan charged that a Honduran factory that produces Sean John clothes operates as a sweatshop. Joining him was Lydda Eli Gonzalez, who said she was a former worker at the ...