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Levi’s: A Style for Every SWEATSHOP Story?

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Levi’s: A Style for Every SWEATSHOP Story?
Mexican garment workers in Levi’s supplier factory Manufacturas Lajat are fighting for better working conditions, but their right to
freedom of association has not been respected.  Levi’s: please ensure workers have a right to organize!
Assembled in a factory where workers got the “boot” for
organizing.  Workers are demanding that Levi’s enforce its
business terms of engagement, which states “We expect our
suppliers to respect the right to free association and the right to
organize and bargain collectively without unlawful interference.”
Workers demand that:
• Levi’s and Lajat ensure that a union election takes place fairly.
• Levi’s should make certain Lajat ends the blacklist & police
harassment.
•  If the Gomez Palacio plant is not reopened, then workers
must be reinstated at another Lajat factory, with transportation
fully paid.
We want a sweat-FREE story!
This campaign is led by the Coalition for Justice in the Maquiladoras
(www.coalitionforjustice.net).  Brochure made by Sweatshop Watch
(www.sweatshopwatch.org), a California-based coalition working to hold
retailers accountable and to support workers rights.
The SuperLOW Cut:
Cut and sewn in a workplace where management
acted “superlow” when workers tried to form an
independent union.
Workers see Lajat taking drastic measures to avoid
a union drive including:
• visiting workers at their homes at midnight
• using the local police to beat and gas workers
• locking out workers
• blacklisting
• reducing workers’ wages to starvation levels.
Worker organizing began when Lajat announced it
would close down the factory in Gomez Palacio, and
transfer workers to another factory miles away without
paying for the transportation.  Workers saw this as a
move to avoid severance pay, which is mandated
under Mexican law.
The Original:
Made in Lajat’s Gomez Palacio factory by workers
who experienced the “same old” conditions:
•  12 hour work days with no overtime pay
•  exposure to harsh chemicals for stonewashing
jeans without any protection
•  lack of access to drinking water  and restrooms in
the factory
•  no lunchroom, forcing workers to eat on the
production floor where stray dust and chemicals
contaminate their food.
The BOOTcut:
Levi’s: A Style for Every SWEATSHOP Story?
Mexican garment workers in Levi’s supplier factory Manufacturas Lajat are fighting for better working conditions, but their right to
freedom of association has not been respected.  Levi’s: please ensure workers have a right to organize!
Assembled in a factory where workers got the “boot” for
organizing.  Workers are demanding that Levi’s enforce its
business terms of engagement, which states “We expect our
suppliers to respect the right to free association and the right to
organize and bargain collectively without unlawful interference.”
Workers demand that:
• Levi’s and Lajat ensure that a union election takes place fairly.
• Levi’s should make certain Lajat ends the blacklist & police
harassment.
•  If the Gomez Palacio plant is not reopened, then workers
must be reinstated at another Lajat factory, with transportation
fully paid.
We want a sweat-FREE story!
This campaign is led by the Coalition for Justice in the Maquiladoras
(www.coalitionforjustice.net).  Brochure made by Sweatshop Watch
(www.sweatshopwatch.org), a California-based coalition working to hold
retailers accountable and to support workers rights.
The SuperLOW Cut:
Cut and sewn in a workplace where management
acted “superlow” when workers tried to form an
independent union.
Workers see Lajat taking drastic measures to avoid
a union drive including:
• visiting workers at their homes at midnight
• using the local police to beat and gas workers
• locking out workers
• blacklisting
• reducing workers’ wages to starvation levels.
Worker organizing began when Lajat announced it
would close down the factory in Gomez Palacio, and
transfer workers to another factory miles away without
paying for the transportation.  Workers saw this as a
move to avoid severance pay, which is mandated
under Mexican law.
The Original:
Made in Lajat’s Gomez Palacio factory by workers
who experienced the “same old” conditions:
•  12 hour work days with no overtime pay
•  exposure to harsh chemicals for stonewashing
jeans without any protection
•  lack of access to drinking water  and restrooms in
the factory
•  no lunchroom, forcing workers to eat on the
production floor where stray dust and chemicals
contaminate their food.
The BOOTcut:


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