Sarah Gonzalez
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and globally has always paid pennies on the piece.
But Lynn has some regrets about this now.
And she says peace rate pay means workers often wreck their bodies working as fast as they can.
There's like a little keyhole right here.
When I showed this garment to Maria, she could really only tell me about the part she does, the trimming.
But Lynn can tell us how many people worked on a garment like this and how much they each got paid.
There are no cups, no liner pads, no holes for the liners, no wire, nothing like that.
And still, Lynn says, it could have taken 13 different people to make it, each doing a different step.
Would like a generous estimate be like every single person who touched this piece got...
No more than 30 cents for what they did, or 40 cents.