Gildan Activewear closing 5 plants, cutting 1,800 jobs
In a release, Gildan said the shift in production is “unavoidable in order to be globally cost-competitive in the intensely competitive North American apparel industry.”
When was the last time you got a free t-shirt (from a promotional event, or a work uniform, or what have you) and it wasn’t a Gildan cotton shirt? Hell, my work uniform, a polo shirt with a stitched on logo, is Gildan. It’s a comfortable shirt, too. I haven’t exactly looked at their financial statements, but it seems to me they’ve grown substantially within the past 5 years, and it hasn’t grown by way of the sweat off third world workers backs.
It’s definitely possible that they plan to give these third world workers a fair wage and treat them like human beings, but it strikes me that if they were going to do things of that nature, they’d have just kept the plants going where they are.
American Apparel employs regular people to stitch together their goods in various facilities and pays them decent wages, and they seem to be doing well enough.
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