The New American Sweatshop in Los Angeles: Worker Abuse in the Car Wash Industry • BRAVE NEW FILMS

The car wash industry in Los Angeles consisted of over 10000 workers -mostly Latino -who report widespread abuses by management -including wage theft, denial of water, and sexual assault....

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[ Music ]>> Carwashes, you know, unfortunately are much like sweatshops on street corners.Many of the same conditions you saw in turn of the century garment factories are alive,and unfortunately flourishing in today's carwashes.So the carwash industry in Los Angeles consists of about 500 different carwashes.The workforce is pretty large; it's 10,000 works.These are mostly immigrant Latino workers.[ Foreign language ][ Music ]>> The carwash workers also -- when they're drying the cars --they don't have any protective gear.They don't have any gloves.>> I think most of us would be surprised at just how toxic the chemicals are in carwashes.Workers regularly use sulfuric acid to clean the rims of...