tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9177745.post5887193321555889042..comments2024-03-23T11:16:46.213-05:00Comments on El Salvador Perspectives: The end of the road for Just GarmentsTimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02452039674856298357noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9177745.post-32538917273868452272009-06-05T22:08:00.068-05:002009-06-05T22:08:00.068-05:00Lourdes has it wrong. Superior gave just work and ...Lourdes has it wrong. Superior gave just work and paid them for it. Even all the stuff on the internet says they gave them work and paid them well for it. Why speak badly about those that actually tried to help Just even when they were just screwing their own people out of a living wage and embezzling their money.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9177745.post-89087943055403479122007-05-22T17:11:00.000-05:002007-05-22T17:11:00.000-05:00Dear Mr. Kernaghan, Warm greetings from the organi...Dear Mr. Kernaghan, <BR/><BR/>Warm greetings from the organized group of former workers of Hermosa Manufacturing. <BR/><BR/>To be quite honest, we want to communicate our surprise to learn of the public attacks against CEAL and STIT which have been circulating electronically and which have been endorsed by the organization that you represent. <BR/><BR/>We knew well in advance that the crises generated in the Hermosa Manufacturing S.A. de C.V. (mayo/05) in which our labor rights were violated, which brought us to the point of needing to organize as a union, and which was the excuse used by the owner to close the factory with all the illegalities that this implied. Your representatives (CNL), had knowledge of all these serious violations that we, the women and men who worked in this maquila were living, but never gave us any type of support during the 24 months that we were in crisis which has come to the attention now of the national and international communities. <BR/><BR/>Today we can recall these events after having survived these attacks on our basic human rights, only because of the support of unions and national and international solidarity organizations, including CEAL and STIT, organizations who without trying to profit from our precarious situation, offered their valuable collaboration, support, consultation and who accompanied in our demonstrations in the streets; support that help us to set a HISTORICAL PRECEDENT when for the first time in El Salvador the owner who robbed our money that was withheld from our checks for social security and pensions was sued.<BR/><BR/>Mr. Kernaghan, we hope that you can reflect on this situation and instead of contributing to the destruction of very important organizations in our movement, we forge unity for the sake of the strength of our organization.<BR/><BR/>In light of what we have written here we request to you withdraw the assaults against CEAL, STIT and the person of Gilberto GarcĂa, because this strengthens the detractors who are in the government, big business and organizations that are not recognized and respected in the country; those who have reason to celebrate this situation.<BR/><BR/>Grupo organizado de Ex trabajadoras de Hermosa.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9177745.post-50706910566994506252007-05-22T17:10:00.000-05:002007-05-22T17:10:00.000-05:00Where they were all the organizations who now crit...Where they were all the organizations who now criticize to Just Garments, when their workers needed aid to fight against the brand Superior Uniform Group to obtain better wages?. <BR/><BR/>http://www.clrlabor.org/alerts/2005/dec08-justgarments.htm <BR/><BR/>I see that STIT, CEAL and other organizations supporting Just Garments, they are fighting against the brands. Easy is criticize, very hard is build a alternative model.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9177745.post-51864255831171045742007-05-13T18:28:00.000-05:002007-05-13T18:28:00.000-05:00While I'm sorry to see the company fold, I did try...While I'm sorry to see the company fold, I did try to order from them in December of 2005 and they did not even acknowledge my order until November of 2006, when they got a new "coordinator." I suspect that they were not a very well-managed company, to say the least.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9177745.post-91687481803205172232007-05-12T22:05:00.000-05:002007-05-12T22:05:00.000-05:00It is incredibly difficult to make a business pros...It is incredibly difficult to make a business prosper, and most businesses end up failing or greatly diminished from what they once were. Older readers may recall once great brands such as Philco, PanAm, RCA, Ford, Western Electric, Studebaker, American Motors Company, etc.<BR/><BR/>In El Salvador, many maquilas have failed, impoverishing their owners and workers.<BR/><BR/>Truthfully, Just Garments was always a long shot. Sad, but true<BR/><BR/><BR/>- * -<BR/><BR/>What's funny is that the report is oh ever so sympathetic to the company, <B><I>which has failed to pay the extremely onerous severance imposed by law on all Salvadorean employers</B></I>.<BR/><BR/>The workers have gotten a fricking IOU. Compare with the screams of <B>unfairness and injustice</B> whenever broke private owners try to settle with former employees or ask for extra time!El-Visitadorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08823897085882597971noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9177745.post-32042628796238449412007-05-11T11:56:00.000-05:002007-05-11T11:56:00.000-05:00That's sad.That's sad.Joehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02102663397567562979noreply@blogger.com