During a meeting of the employment, safety and training subcommittee of the U.S. Senate Health Committee yesterday, worker after immigrant worker testified regarding the outrageous conditions and treatment they suffered at the hands of their employers. Testimony was also heard from Labor Department officials and union officers, who gave evidence of the disproportionate number of injuries, diseases and fatalities that immigrant workers confront in the workplace. A human face was giving to these statistics by such stories as that of a New York sweatshop laborer---forced to work fourteen hours a day until she was injured on the job and fired---who asked the Senators to ban forced overtime.
See "Immigrant Laborers Cite Unsafe Work Conditions", The Associated Press, Newsday, February 27, 2002