Article: When Jews Sweat Labor: Ex-Con Stands Between Workers, ILGWU

Jeffrey Goldberg
Forward
03-18-1994
When Jews Sweat Labor: Ex-Con Stands Between Workers, ILGWU.

BROOKLYN -- In a cold and windowless Williamsburg factory that houses the S&W Knitting Mill, the garment workers -- mostly Hispanic women -- smile as their boss, Issachar Weiss, walks through. "It's a real nice place," one employee tells a visiting reporter. But after work, when the bosses aren't around, workers tell a different story. "We want a free union," one worker says in Spanish. "But they won't let us have one."

It is David Ganz' job to make sure they don't get one. Ganz, a Satmar Chasid and a convicted embezzler who spent five months in prison, heads the Tri-State Commercial ...

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