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Workers at a Jordanian textile plant where Victoria's Secret products are manufactured struck mid-November to protest management’s poor treatment. The recent U.S.-Jordan Free Trade Agreement has resulted in an influx of guest workers there, and several American corporations have set up shop. Guest workers go to great lengths to secure work in Jordan, often taking noxious loans to obtain the required $1,500 to $3,000 for a permit.

Those who arrive at the D.K Garments factory in Jordan face extreme work conditions, according to a recent report by the National Labor Committee (NLC). The 150 guest workers at the plant, most of whom come from Bangladesh and Sri Lanka, are subjected to 15-hour days with mandatory, underpaid overtime, and an average of only one vacation day every three months.

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