Actor Danny Glover Offers Support In Fight Against Hugo Boss

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.wcpn.org/WCPN/news/30114/

Actor Danny Glover is the latest to show solidarity with workers at the Hugo Boss clothing factory in suburban Cleveland. It's slated to close in April and move operations overseas, eliminating nearly 400 jobs. Ideastream's Bill Rice reports.

Danny Glover, best known for his role in the Lethal Weapon films, met with Hugo Boss workers Tuesday, but could offer little more than kind words of support as the company prepares to close the facility and move production overseas.

Glover: “The Hugo Boss management, whoever that is, needs to come here and watch these workers and see these workers, and see their commitment that I’m sure Hugo Boss demands for all of its products. And they’re here, right here, their jobs that have to stay here, that need to stay here.”

Glover said companies should be less concerned with the bottom line, and more concerned with people.

Earlier this month Glover convinced fellow actors not to wear fashionable Hugo Boss clothing to the Academy Awards Ceremony, and said the boycott should continue in Hollywood until the company gets the message. But he said his visit to the factory was largely a tribute to the workers there.

Glover: “This is literally about them, and being here in order to, if anything, provide some sort of inspiration for their struggle.”

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[OhioBlue]

1. Good for Danny Glover n/t

[mitchtv]

2. San Francisco values

Thanks Danny Glover

[frazzled]

3. Well, Hugo Boss is not an American company ...

and although it's too bad they are closing that factory, and I am very sympathetic to the workers there, it's a little different than an American company taking their manufacturing overseas.

As far as I can tell, there are only 3 men's suit companies who still make their clothing in the U.S.: Hart Schaffner Marx (Obama wears their suits, made in Chicago), Hickey Freeman (very expensive, I think), and Joseph Abboud (my husband has one). ttp://www.stillmadeinusa.com/men.html#dress

My son has a Hugo Boss suit (his only one, which he bought five years ago), because it's the only one we could find for him that came in a 36 short! When he needs a new suit, it's going to be tough going. Even my husband, who wears a 38R has trouble finding suits or sports jackets. And forget it if you have a 14 1/2 neck. 14 1/2 shirts (once plentiful) don't exist anymore. I've gotten off topic. Sorry.