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In 1972, Dr. Tan Siu Lin and his family moved from Hong Kong to Guam to engage in Shipping , Real Estate and Movie Distribution businesses. Over the years, the family-run business has evolved to include Airline , Amusement , Fast Food , Fishing , ground handling service, Hotel , Information Technology , Financial Services , Logistic Services , Publishing (including the '' Saipan Tribune '', the largest newspaper on the islands), Retail , and Wholesale Subsidiaries . LEVI STRAUSS SUBCONTRACTING In 1991, Levi Strauss & Co. was embarrassed by a scandal involving six subsidiary factories run by the Tan family on the Northern Mariana Islands , in which Chinese laborers suffered under what the U.S. Department Of Labor called "slavelike" conditions. Cited for sub-minimal wages, seven-day work week schedules with twelve-hour shifts, poor living conditions and other indignities (including the alleged removal of passports and the virtual imprisonment of workers), Tan would eventually pay what was then the largest fines in U.S. labor history, distributing more than $9 million in restitution to some 1200 employees. {Link without Title} {Link without Title} {Link without Title} At the time, Tan factories produced 3% of Levi's jeans with the "Made in the U.S.A." label. Levi Strauss had no knowledge of the offenses, severed ties to the Tan family, and instituted labor reforms and inspection practices in its offshore facilities. DELAY/ABRAMOFF CONTROVERSY The business practices of Tan Holdings Corporation gained new prominence during the American Political Scandals of Congressman Tom DeLay and Lobbyist Jack Abramoff . Both were involved in protecting Sweatshop s and the economic control of CNMI by Tan family businesses. Because the Northern Mariana Islands are part of the U.S. Commonwealth, goods can be produced with the "Made in the U.S.A." title, but political pressure has allowed the islands to be exempt from federal Immigration and Labor Law s. ABC News and Al Franken have pointed out that garment workers of THC have been forced to have Abortion s in order to keep their jobs. EXTERNAL LINKS
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