Last week, the owners of the Lee Jeans factory in Greenock, the USA based Vanity Fair Corporation, announced their profits for the last six months. They were over 20 per cent up since last year from nine and a half million dollars to nearly eleven and a half million dollars!
Want' about the Lee Jeans occupation, a sorry tale is told of the crass exploitation of women workers in the 'rag trade' and the dirty tricks of companies like V.F. Corporation.
Despite "record' profits, Tune reenock workers were told that the jeans market had collapsed and that closure was the only option for the comDally.
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Accorcing the nam phlet, Lee Jeans was created over the last ten years by V.F Corporation more traditional, clothes is part of an empire which includes forty-four facspread throughout the LOTIC UDA anG BuroDe become an enor mous profit maker in the last eight for V.F specialising in 'get rich quick' scheme:
investing in areas where government grants are plentiful and wage rates are low When it came to Greenocl receivec enolov ment grants or up to Iz Io. each investment rants, which were as high cent local authorities. paid for by a government sub sidised loan. Alabama It's the same in the USA where Lee Jeans concentrates its attention on the Southern Dales, especially Alabama. Its most recent European ex thern Ireland.
As well" as milking the purse for its profits. н cornoramon akes to en sure that it has a low wage pions from organ ping in thi orallis Convenor The Greenock workers know well the battle they've na•t acneve iser cosedshop, including strike action re-instate Helen Shop oi Lee Jeans throughout the USA they don't meet Suggested tha were chosen to Make surt liai For a few guaranter peaceful vorkforce is to make their factories are relatively small. Any industrial actior which does organise therefore has title chance of succos.
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