Levi's Closes Last Two U.S. Sewing Plants

[curtoid]

This is sad...


Plants Closing Down (http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040109/ap_on_bi_ge/levi_s_closing)



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[monsterone]

nothing like the nimble fingers of a lil asian child.

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On the bright side this is great news for Asian sweatshops! Work, kids, work!

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[silera]

Is there anywhere to go where you can find out what companies actually bother to produce their clothes here?


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[curtoid]

Is there anywhere to go where you can find out what companies actually bother to produce their clothes here?

Here's a site with some info... (http://www.mit.edu/afs/athena/activity/l/labor/www/clothing.html)



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Work, kids, work!


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[furie]

Here's a site with some info...


not much of a choice


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[DeltaPin]

I'm actually suprised they still had plants here.

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[curtoid]

not much of a choice


There's always thrift stores - buying it second hand.



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[fluffernutter]

I remember the whole shpeil about "buy American" and Made in the USA. What really is made here anymore.. Correct me if I am wrong but it seems like foreign companies have factories here and American companies are overseas or over our borders.

This is truly a shame because I just don't understand and maybe it is just me being naive how you can be an American institution for so long and not even make your product here int he States.

Is there not something the government can do to keep these companies afloat here?

Or is the government to worried about their money making schemes that they don't have time for that?

When is the last time you saw a "Buy American" bumper sticker?

Really is sad when you think about it.

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[curtoid]

I guess it's more important/more American to be able to "buy it cheap" than buy it made in America. We love our Wal-Marts and Targets.



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[Yerdaddy]

Bear in mind Levis is the last large clothing manufacturer of it's kind to have retained any domestic manufacturing for about the last 4 years. It did so knowing that it would be at a disadvantage and would be losing money, but did it anyway in order to be responsible. When they were closing most of their factories a few years ago they were giving the largest severance packages in the industry. Levi's was one of the first American companies to pull out of Burma when it was confronted with the fact that a company can't do business in the country without enriching the brutal military regime there. They were one of the first companies to adopt a meaningful "code of conduct" regarding their overseas workforce, and enforce it. They cooperate with international labor organizations that monitor for sweatshops and they have recieved praise from legitimate labor organizations they've worked with. Essentially they've sacraficed profits to avoid sweatshops since around 1990 when a former head of the Peace Corp took over the company. They've done more than any other clothing company I've ever heard of, (and that doesn't produce hemp jeans), and I decided to trust them and buy only Levi's and Dockers for the last 5 years. If I could afford to buy from those fringe companies that can give me a guarantee that I'm not buying sweatshop labor I would. But from the mainstream options Levi's is the best I've seen. If they made pimp suits then everything I wear would be Levi's.

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