SAN DIEGO - Five major clothing companies have agreed to pay more than $2 million to 150 immigrants kept under slave-like conditions at notorious garment sweatshops in El Monte and Los Angeles. The funds will be distributed among 80 Thai workers and 70 Latinos. The manufacturers and retailers who agreed to the settlement have made no admission of wrongdoing.With the announcement of the award, the legal case that began in August 1995, when the Labor Commissioner's office and Cal-OSHA uncovered the a
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