Teen stars Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen demanded retail giant Wal-mart provide female factory workers in Bangladesh with maternity leave and benefits.
, The Full House stars, 18, were said to be "horrified" to discover the workers who sew the Olsen Twins clothing line, were working in poor conditions.
Just hours after a protest by members of America's National Labor Committee (NLC) began at Washington Square Park near New York University, where the sisters are studying, Mary-Kate and Ashley signed the petition for Wal-Mart to give workers the "legal right to maternity leave with benefits."
But what about decent pay and working conditions?
A Wal-Mart statement regarding general sweat-shop allegations reads, "We feel that our program is helping to improve working conditions and create economic opportunity for workers around the world."
Former Talk show host Kathie Lee Gifford was also linked to a sweat shop scandal a few years ago. She held a weepy press conference after it was revealed that her Kathie Lee clothing line, also sold by Wal-Mart, was made by sweatshop workers in Honduras.
The Olsen twins shouldn't be shocked by the news. Most cheap goods in the world today are manufactured in sweatshops with deplorable pay and treatment. Chances are pretty good that something under your Christmas tree or a Hannakah gift was made in a sweatshop -- by the hands of children. If the gift is trendy clothes, purchased at a discount price, the odds are high.
The Full House stars, 18, were said to be "horrified" to discover the workers who sew the Olsen Twins clothing line, were working in poor conditions.
Just hours after a protest by members of America's National Labor Committee (NLC) began at Washington Square Park near New York University, where the sisters are studying, Mary-Kate and Ashley signed the petition for Wal-Mart to give workers the "legal right to maternity leave with benefits."
But what about decent pay and working conditions?
A Wal-Mart statement regarding general sweat-shop allegations reads, "We feel that our program is helping to improve working conditions and create economic opportunity for workers around the world."
Former Talk show host Kathie Lee Gifford was also linked to a sweat shop scandal a few years ago. She held a weepy press conference after it was revealed that her Kathie Lee clothing line, also sold by Wal-Mart, was made by sweatshop workers in Honduras.
The Olsen twins shouldn't be shocked by the news. Most cheap goods in the world today are manufactured in sweatshops with deplorable pay and treatment. Chances are pretty good that something under your Christmas tree or a Hannakah gift was made in a sweatshop -- by the hands of children. If the gift is trendy clothes, purchased at a discount price, the odds are high.
