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.

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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• Workers United
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[hiromiao]

I just bought a jam/sharp Huge Boss suit And notice it was in Turkey. :P they shouldn't charge so much if labor was so cheap.

[cmpgnmusic]

ridiculous, that is globalization ladys and gentlemen, welcome to reality!!

[1984vrs]

it is Turkey, Romania, Bulgaria I heard

[clevelandleader]

Keep up the good fight!

[siliconsurf]

any ideas where they're shipping their factory to? I hope it's not some shitty third world country...

[allergictoshrubs]

Solutions:

1) Decrease Hugo Boss executive salaries by 35%.

2) Make Hugo Boss executives live on $8/hour for a year while keeping none of their executive perks (e.g,, the health care I'm sure they enjoy).

3) If they do this, stop buying Hugo Boss products.

4) And stop voting for legislators who make it fiscally desirable to do this -- demand laws that penalize corporations that screw the country. Contact your legislator and demand an end to supporting outsourcing!

[KAT12sb]

After 41 years at a job, no one should have to lose that job because a greedy corporation is putting profit ahead of people. Hugo Boss wanted to reduce wages 35% to $8.30 an hour for the workers, which is ludicrous!--I doubt Hugo Boss would be reducing the prices of their suits by 35% (or any other amount). Seems Hugo Boss's new business model is to put people who make a living wage out of work and offshore their jobs to sweatshops, where cheaply-made copies of their suits will be produced.