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Pandemic crushes workers at both ends of the global supply chain
The collapse of the global garment trade has wreaked havoc for millions of workers, the vast majority of them women.
In her last weeks working the freight shift at the local J.C. Penney store, Alexandra Orozco took out her phone and hit record. The 22-year-old shot a video of the giant black-and-red “Everything Must go!” posters and posted it on TikTok in October.
“Slowing losing my job,” she wrote below, days before the store in Delano, California, shut for good, one of 156 J.C. Penneys across the United States to close since June of this year.