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A group of demonstrators gathered in front of the world headquarters of San Francisco based Levi Strauss to take part in a "bullhorn action" demanding that the company restore the jobs of workers recently fired by one of it's contractors, the haiti based Grupo M, for taking part in a union drive.
The demonstrators, who included representatives from the San Francisco Labor Council, United Students Against Sweatshops, and the California Coalition for Fair Trade and Human Rights, pointed out that Levi's inaction is in direct conflict with it's own Code of Conduct which states that it's suppliers can not interfere with the right of workers to freely associate.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2004/08/05/BUGFH82J1I1.DTL
Organized-labor advocates and anti-sweatshop activists plan to demonstrate in front of Levi Strauss & Co.'s San Francisco headquarters at 1 p. m. today to protest alleged workers' rights abuses by a Levi's subcontractor in Haiti.
Groups including the San Francisco Labor Council and United Students Against Sweatshops want Levi's to pressure the factory, owned by Grupo M, a company based in the Dominican Republic, to negotiate with workers' independent union and rehire more than 300 workers they say were fired during recent labor talks.
But Levi's said that one of its factory monitors already has investigated worker discharges at the factory. As a result, Levi's said, in April about 30 workers were reinstated with back pay. Levi's blamed an additional 250 layoffs in June on productivity declines, not union busting by management as the activists claim.
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