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Levi was pushing Dockers big time. Interesting what you write about company finances. I vaguely remember hearing about labor disputes, lay-offs, plant closures and moving work off shore. Here's what Coop America advises:
Levi's classic American blue jeans aren't actually made in America. The last few years has seen closures of Levi's manufacturing plants and layoffs in Georgia, California, Texas and Tennessee and in Canada. So who is making Levi's jeans these days, and how are those workers treated? Levi's thankfully pulled its manufacturing out of Burma over concerns about the country's oppressive regime; but Levi's avoided a settlement in a class action lawsuit against a Saipan manufacturing plant where thousands of garment workers were subjected to sweatshop conditions. Levi's remaining American employees enjoy excellent diversity policies concerning both ethnicity and sexual orientation; however, the company has far to go before the same can be said for all workers in its supply chain. Bottom line: tell Levi's to uphold its own supplier code of conduct and say no to sweatshop labor. Find sweatshop free options through the Green Shift.
Levi's classic American blue jeans aren't actually made in America. The last few years has seen closures of Levi's manufacturing plants and layoffs in Georgia, California, Texas and Tennessee and in Canada. So who is making Levi's jeans these days, and how are those workers treated? Levi's thankfully pulled its manufacturing out of Burma over concerns about the country's oppressive regime; but Levi's avoided a settlement in a class action lawsuit against a Saipan manufacturing plant where thousands of garment workers were subjected to sweatshop conditions. Levi's remaining American employees enjoy excellent diversity policies concerning both ethnicity and sexual orientation; however, the company has far to go before the same can be said for all workers in its supply chain.
Bottom line: tell Levi's to uphold its own supplier code of conduct and say no to sweatshop labor. Find sweatshop free options through the Green Shift.
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by peace voter on Wed Apr 04, 2007 at 01:27:48 PM PDT
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