Hollywood Stars: Don't Wear Hugo Boss on the Oscar Red Carpet

When you're selling high-end fashion like Hugo Boss suits, you can afford to pay decent wages to the people who make them. But Hugo Boss is stuck in the 20th Century. They say they need to shut down their U.S. suit factory in Cleveland and fire more than 300 workers. They say they want to make suits more cheaply in Turkey or Eastern Europe. They don't even claim the Cleveland factory is losing money -- they just say they need to make a bit more money. Please.

That's why Danny Glover is asking stars not to wear Hugo Boss on the red carpet -- and show their solidarity with workers with a pin on their lapels.

Click below to take action by contacting the celebrities yourself.

http://action.workersunitedunion.org/page/s/tellhollywood

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Hugo Boss Workers Fight to Save their Jobs

Hugo Boss spends millions on sports sponsorships like competitive sailing, tennis, golf, auto racing, and soccer.

And yet they'd like you to believe that they can no longer afford to employ suit manufacturing workers in the U.S.

Don't believe them.

Click here to watch worker video.

Hugo Boss made more than $140 million in profits in the first nine months of 2009, according to the company's third-quarter report. The company paid shareholders more than $135 million in dividends last year, on top of a huge dividend of $637 million in 2008.

The amount Hugo Boss says it is trying to save by closing its U.S. suit manufacturing plant is only a few million dollars... a drop in the Hugo Boss bucket.

Tell Hugo Boss Chief Operating Officer Dr. Andreas Stockert to keep the company's U.S. suit manufacturing plant open and keep hard-working Americans on the job.

Andreas_Stockert@HugoBoss.com

212-940-0600

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GAP's 1969 flashback -- These jeans are UNION MADE!

Gap LogoThe GAP's 1969 "Real Straight" jeans sporting the "Made in Canada" label are made by Workers United, SEIU members.  In the 1990's, consumer outrage forced the GAP to address sweatshop conditions at their factories overseas.  10 years later, the GAP's turnaround includes improved environmental practices, a vender compliance program that monitors overseas factories, and a commitment to manufacturing, in part, at union shops in North America.

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Ontario Workers Fend off UNITE HERE Raids and Win!

ontario workers marchThe Ontario Labour Relations Board confirmed that 90 percent of workers at seven workplaces across Ontario voted to be represented by the Workers United Ontario Council instead of UNITE HERE. "I don't know how many times and in how many ways we have to tell UNITE HERE we don't want to be part of their union," said Joe Barbisan, a Xerox worker and President of Workers United Local 1414B, a local of the Ontario Council.  Votes have been taking place since September of this year, but ballot-counting was delayed after UNITE HERE filed motions to prevent workers' votes from being counted.

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