ABSTRACT
Every morning Kathie Lee Gifford engaged a national television audience with her personal warmth and infectious enthusiasm. But the popular talk show host could not believe the news she was hearing as she prepared to go on the air with her co-host, Regis Philbin. In a Congressional Hearing, Charles Kernaghan, Executive Director of the National Labor Committee Education Fund, had testified that Kathie Lee's line of clothing was being produced by 13- and 14-year-old children in large, decrepit factories in Honduras. The factories were referred to as “monstrous sweatshops,” where workers were paid “slave wages.” Reliable sources indicated that many of these children worked 75 hours per week for the minimum wage of $0.31 per hour. Ms. Gifford was accused of being a party to this gross mistreatment of children in these Honduran sweatshops. 1
