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R.M. PERLMAN, INC. v. N.Y. COAT, SUIT, UNION LOC. 89-22-1

No. 1213, Docket 93-9079.

33 F.3d 145 (1994)

R.M. PERLMAN, INC., doing business as Rebecca Moses Collection, and Rebecca Moses, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. NEW YORK COAT, SUIT, DRESSES, RAINWEAR & ALLIED WORKERS' UNION LOCAL 89-22-1, I.L.G.W.U., AFL-CIO; Samuel Byer, as General Manager of N.Y. Coat, Suit, Dress, Rainwear & Allied Workers' Union Local 89-22-1, I.L.G.W.U.; International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union and Jay Mazur, as President of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided August 18, 1994.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joel E. Cohen, New York City (Mudge Rose Guthrie Alexander & Ferdon, of counsel), for plaintiffs-appellants.

Thomas M. Kennedy, New York City (Lewis, Greenwald, Kennedy, Lewis, Clifton & Schwartz, P.C., of counsel), for defendant-appellee New York Coat, Suit, Dress, Rainwear & Allied Workers' Union, Local 89-22-1, ILGWU.

Brent Garren, New York City (Max Zimny, of counsel), for defendant-appellee International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union.

Before: CARDAMONE, PRATT and MINER, Circuit Judges.

CARDAMONE, Circuit Judge:

We review on this appeal a special proviso inserted in a federal statute to preserve certain union practices believed helpful in combating the blight of sweatshops in the garment industry. Sweatshops may be defined as businesses that regularly violate wage, child labor, safety and health laws. These establishments, which pay workers below living wages for long hours of work under intolerable conditions, have existed in the United States for...

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