By Doug Cunningham

Some Target stores, including one in the Bronx, are selling Halloween costumes allegedly made under sweatshop conditions. The Labor federation of Workers, known by its Spanish language initials FTVO, says Target is selling costumes - including Barbie and Harry Potter costumes - from a Mexican factory where workers have been illegally locked out. The union says the costumes are made in horrible sweatshop conditions including the use of child labor. Labor activists are focusing a campaign on Target and Mattel to win union recognition for the locked out workers.