Lingerie giant Victoria's Secret in sweatshop row

North Dakota (US): After fashion label Gap, it's now the turn of American fashion house Victoria's Secret. The company has been accused of profiting from sweatshop labour in Jordan. The National Labor Committee provided CNN with photos of D K Garment factory in Jordan where workers claim they are pushed to put in 100 hours a week, cranking out Victoria's secret lingerie for just 75 cents an hour and no overtime. "I think American people would be shocked,” said NLC Director Charles Kernaghan. According Kernaghan, employees who tried to protest their conditions lost more than just their jobs. "Management's response was to have six of the workers who had organised the protests imprisoned,” said Kernaghan. Victoria's Secret declined CNN’s request for an interview and released this statement saying the company is investigating the allegation: We are taking this issue very seriously and since the moment we learned of the report have had a team investigating the concerns. The Jordanian government has also started its own inquiry. "The Ministry of Labor has commissioned an independent third party to look into the case,” said Jordanian government spokeswoman Merissa Khurma. But this is not the first allegation of sweatshop labor to surface in Jordan. Earlier this year, the MLC obtained a video of another factory in Jordan where workers made similar claims of abuse. Some in US Congress say it may be time to begin imposing fines on American companies that profit off of the exploitation of cheap labor overseas. "I think if most people found out these things were happening at the end of their block they'd walk down to the end of their block and say you can't abuse people this way,” said Senator Byron Dorgan of North Dakota. news by: ibnlive