Fight the Power - SF - PSA
Subject: SF Garment Workers need your help
Subject: NOVA Knits Action 4/12
***Justice for NOVA Knits Workers!***
Join over 100 Immigrant Chinese Garment Workers to
Protest Exploitation of “Disposable Workers” by
Transnational Corporations
WHAT: Immigrant Worker Rally and March
WHEN: Tuesday, April 12th, 2005
TIME: 2:00 pm
PLACE: Union Square (March Starting Point) - ending at
645 Harrison Street between 2nd and 3rd Streets (NOVA
Knits Inc. Headquarters)
BACKGROUND: On Tuesday, April 12th, over a hundred
Chinese immigrant garment workers will demand justice
from NOVA Knits and other transnational garment
corporations. Last month, NOVA Knits, Inc, a San
Francisco based garment manufacturing company,
laid-off over 80 Chinese immigrant workers with merely
an hour notice and no severance. Many of these
workers have worked for NOVA Knits for over 20 years.
To transnational corporations like NOVA Knits,
low-wage immigrant workers are treated as “disposable”
resources to be used and abandoned at the whim of
their corporate bosses.
NOVA Knits is a key manufacturer for major labels such
as: the Gap & Banana Republic, Abercrombie and Fitch,
Liz Claiborne, Sears, Ann Taylor, Talbots, Tse
Cashmere, Abeille Ligne, and Ellen Tracy. NOVA Knits
Inc. has violated the WARN Act, which offers nominal
protection to workers, their families and communities
by requiring employers to provide notice 60 days in
advance of plant closings and mass layoffs.
Historically, as one of the largest knitting factories
in the nation, NOVA Knits has outsourced to factories
in China, Hong Kong, Mexico and Africa to exploit
lower labor and production costs. Since October 2004
the corporation has laid off a total of over 120
immigrant Chinese workers in San Francisco with no
notice or severance.
For more info, contact the Chinese Progressive
Association at (415) 391-6986 ext. 308.
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