Jobs with Justice Blog » nordstroms http://www.jwjblog.org Building a movement for workers' rights & economic justice. Thu, 29 Jul 2010 19:32:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 Hugo Boss Threatens to Move Overseas if Workers Refuse $4/Hr Pay Cut http://www.jwjblog.org/2010/02/hugo-boss-threatens-to-move-overseas-if-workers-refuse-4hr-pay-cut/ http://www.jwjblog.org/2010/02/hugo-boss-threatens-to-move-overseas-if-workers-refuse-4hr-pay-cut/#comments Wed, 03 Feb 2010 19:28:45 +0000 Debbie Kline http://www.jwjblog.org/?p=1289 Clevelanders Protest the Closing of Hugo BossIt wasn’t very long ago that every time you looked at a clothing label you would see “Made in the USA.”  Not only was it made in the USA but it probably also had some sort of connection to a thriving garment industry in the Cleveland area.  Names like Joseph & Feiss Co, Bobbie Brooks, Printz-Biederman, Lion Knitting Mills, and Cleveland Worsted Mill dominated the industry and union cards kept people gainfully employed.

But this good thing has come to an end.  Now Hugo Boss, the last clothing manufacturer in Cleveland, has given notice of their intent to shutter their plant and permanently lay off 400 workers at the end of April.

Hugo is closing because they want to ship the jobs to a plant in Turkey where they can pay much less than the average current rate of $12 per hour they pay Cleveland employees.

Hugo management offered to stay if the employees were willing to cut pay to $8 an hour.

Maybe there should be a

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