Thursday, September 15, 2011

Box Canyon

mudd jeans corporate headquarters mudd jeans corporate headquarters::Since 1999 mexicomade jeans enter the us duty free.
Since january 2005, however, world trade rules changed and mexico no longer has a unique position.
The expiration of the multifiber agreement has brought increased pressure on mexico to hold down labor costs or face loss of investment to china and central america.
It designs, brands and markets clothes.
All its clothing is made by subcontractors in 50 countries around the world.
They use over 100 plants in china.
On paper they are wonderful and provide for safe, healthy workplaces where workers are supposed to have rights to organize.
They say that only extreme and repeated violations may cause them to cancel their contract.
The problem with this is that there is no independent monitoring or accountability.
In our experience their inspectors are not neutral and have been disrespectful toward the workers.
Then they cancelled their contract and left, cutting and running.
It was a subsubcontractor.
They pulled the contract.
And canadian citizens have far more leverage as consumers with corporations than they do with the mexican government.
We have had delegations visit mexican consulates and encourage you to do that.

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