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.
212-940-0600
Workers want change
Norma Milligan
Brooklyn, NY. Laundry, Drycleaning & Allied Workers Joint Board, member for 33 years
It is not about just us, it is not for this generation, it is for the future generation. We as laundry workers have been on the back burner for too long.
I know how important our union is and I am ready to do what it takes to make the Employee Free Choice Act law.
Isabel M. Peña
Laundry worker, Western States Regional Joint Board member of 20 years
It's important to be part of a union because we get better benefits, to get representation inside our worksite, and so that employers respect us.