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Protest Against Russell Athletic

Sent on behalf of Russell Athletic,
I’d like to respond to the false accusation that we closed this plant
because workers were trying to unionize. We had already recognized this
plant’s union status for more than a year before announcing the closure.
The Fair Labor Association, as well as an independent report it
commissioned both agreed: it was necessary for us to close one of our
three plants in Honduras because of the global economic slowdown. The
independent report also confirmed the two reasons why we chose this
plant in particular: 1) The need for products sewn there was lower than
any of our other factories in Honduras. And 2) it was the only one with
a lease we could vacate immediately, which saved us $2 million. No one
has ever refuted any of these economic factors.
Russell had recognized the union at that plant on October 3, 2007,
months before the global slowdown began. A separate report commissioned
by the FLA found that management and the union actually had a
“cooperative rapport.”
All told the recession has forced several companies to close 25 plants
in Honduras. We’ve closed nine plants in Central America because of the
economic slowdown, and this was the only one that was unionized. As the
FLA noted in its report: “If the primary motive of the company had been
to frustrate the union, it could have closed JDH earlier and even
switched production from Honduras to Mexico.”
Other accusations aimed at our company such as sweatshops and death threats are even more outrageous and easy to disprove.
To learn more, please visit our Web site,
http://www.russellsocialresponsibility.com.

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