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Article: Sweatshop charges hit Jaclyn Smith. (Charles Kernaghan, National Labor Committee, unveils workplace conditions at Seolim factory, Honduras, that manufactures Jaclyn Smith's apparel collection)
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- WWD
- Article date:
- May 30, 1996
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WASHINGTON-Human rights activist Charles Kernaghan, who last month took Kathie Lee Gifford to task for sweatshop conditions in a Honduran plant that produced some of her apparel line, took aim at another celebrity target Wednesday -- Jaclyn Smith.
While his charges met with immediate refutations. Kernaghan. executive director of the National Labor Committee, told a Capitol Hill press conference that apparel for Smith's collection, which is sold exclusively at Kmart stores, was made at Seolim factory in Baraco, Honduras. This factory. Kernaghan said, forces about 200 workers 16 and 17 years old, to work from 7:30 a.m. until 9 p.m. and pays them just 31 cents an hour. ...