Hugo Boss plant in Ohio will stay open

[The Straight Story]

Hugo Boss plant in Ohio will stay open
Friday, April 23, 2010 12:29 PM

ASSOCIATED PRESS

BROOKLYN, Ohio -- Union workers today approved an eleventh-hour agreement to keep open a Hugo Boss men's suit plant in Ohio where the more than 300 workers drew the support of actor Danny Glover.

Ratification of the deal was first announced by Gov. Ted Strickland and later confirmed by union officials, who did not immediately have details of the vote or the three-year deal.

Company and union leaders said they had agreed on the deal overnight.

In a joint statement, Hugo Boss and the unions Workers United and SEIU said the agreement is designed to help the company's competitiveness by increasing its flexibility and reducing costs. The statement said the planned April 27 closing of the factory would be canceled if union members ratified the pact.

http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/business/stories/2010/04/23/hugo-boss.html?sid=101

[mod mom]

1. great news

[Dreamer Tatum]

2. Great, now we can go back to ridiculing anyone who wears Hugo Boss as an elitist

consumerist small-dicked pretty boy blah blah blah all the other stuff we say about people who buy expensive things.