Bad Law does not pass. California Legislators Fail to Pass a Bill That Would Have Protected Garment Workers

Bad Law does not pass. California Legislators Fail to Pass a Bill That Would Have Protected Garment Workers. What this would have done was cost hundreds if not thousands of jobs. Let me explain. The big complaint was that they were on average only making 3 cents per mask. Many of the garment workers are paid by piece. So a mask is very small so that's where the 3 cents per mask comes from.

Having retired from the garment industry, I can tell you that there is very little profit in selling some of these masks. The best masks out there, the N95 cost me $1.20 ea. So it cost the manufacturer about $.60-.65 cents to make. So how much profit is there for the Manufacturer? Workers are not getting cheated. You raise their wages to say the $15.00 an hour, they're done.

I told you the made in USA masks cost me $1.20 ea. The Chinese KN95 cost me $.23 cents ea. So you pass that law, then tell the workers why they no longer have a job.