Thursday, January 08, 2004

And, in a companion piece of sorts, to the previous post:
Yahoo News - Levi's Closes Last Two U.S. Sewing Plants

By T.A. BADGER, AP Business Writer

SAN ANTONIO - Levi Strauss & Co., the California Gold Rush outfitter whose blue jeans are a globally recognized symbol of America, closed its last two U.S. sewing plants Thursday.

About 800 workers at the 26-year-old San Antonio plants lost their jobs in the move, which was announced last September...