Levi Strauss announces intention to close six plants (U.S. plants)

Associated Press / SFGate

[Sabertooth]

Levi's used to be the definition of denim. I always had at least two pair of 501s.

Now they want to be the definition of homosexual gun-hating.

Haven't bought anything from them since about 1995.

Still have a classic denim jacket, though... vintage 1984.

[Howie66]

Exactly, my point.

[aculeus]

The most left-wing company in America. (Ben & Jerry now owned by a big multinational.)

[Drango]

Same here! I haven't (knowingly) bought a Levi's product since they took the side of the gay rights crowd versus the Boy Scouts many years ago. I don't like their anti-gun drivel either so that's just another reason to dump them.

DITTO. In addition to adults, I wonder how many more jeans they would have sold to the thousands of Boy Scouts growing up who also refused to wear them.

Bottom line : Who cares about Levi Strauss?

[fred flinch]

Looks like the little general was right,you can hear the sucking sound!

[Protagoras]

Or maybe they're money-grubbing scum with no commitment to patriotism, no commitment to local culture, no commitment to anything other than range-of-the-moment maximizing of share-holder value.

Or maybe they are businessmen who can't make money doing it they way they have been because their customers won't pay the price for the jeans produced this way.

I guess maybe it's the customers who have no committment to local culture, or patriotism or anyhing other than buying jeans at the lowest possible price.

[MarkWar]

>>Or maybe they're money-grubbing scum with no commitment to patriotism, no commitment to local culture, no commitment to anything other than range-of-the-moment maximizing of share-holder value.
>...I guess maybe it's the customers who have no committment to local culture, or patriotism or anyhing other than buying jeans at the lowest possible price.

[laughs] At least we agree it's not random chance!

Mark W.

[billbears]

Of course it will be different. Heck, I'd move my company too if the costs are more expensive to make the same product here. Companies are in the business to make money. Their political views aside, I applaud Levi Strauss for moving. Within 20-30 years the US will no longer be a manufacturing economy, we are moving more and more towards a service economy

[Rodney King]

I haven't bought jeans from them in years, due to their being a bunch of homosexual gun-haters.

[Protagoras]

:-)

[HangFire]

I love the smell of failed anti second amendment businesses first thing in the morning!!

LOL!

[It Matters]

Wranglers are more comfortable anyways. Cowboy Cut, 20X, etc. Plus they sponser pro rodeo, sportsmen, etc. An all american company.

[hove]

Another in an endless line of stories about the new global economy. Corporations, in a need to be competitive, are moving manufacturing to the third world. Wealth, created in the form of corporate profits, was distributed to Americans in the form of blue collar (living wage) jobs. America became an econmoic power house in the last two centuries and Americans enjoyed an increasing standard of living. The distributed wealth created a huge and hungry market for American made goods. Now, because of repressive taxes, regulation, and competition from access to cheap foriegn labor, American corporations feel compelled to ship these jobs to the third world. America will continue to evolve to a three layered...stratified...economy. A large welfare class that leaches from the economy. Then a large service economy that requires mom and pop to work to survive. Guess who the losers are there. And on top a thin veneer of professionals and elite with good college degrees. They will manage the money that corporations are raking in. The money those corporations used to distrbute to American workers. The moral of the story is get your kids their PHD's and buy stock in those corporations so you can get your share of the wealth. Welcome, American, to the Global New World Order!

[gnarledmaw]

I wish I could be there to remind you of this statement when youre "servicing" your Chinese overlords toilet.

[1Old Pro]

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The cost of insuring "domestic partners" went to the bottom line and is a "drag" on earnings.

[billbears]

Well I tell you what. You want it fixed? Slap a tariff on it!! That'll help short term, but in the long term it always hurts. You cannot force the economy over the long term to remain a manufacturing economy unless you either do away with unions(which force up the costs) or do away with other costs incurred by running a plant within the US. If you do it any other way, you are harming the capitalist system. But of course this is the 'American System', right?

Free Trade bump to you stainless

[Rytwyng]

Who is American Eagle? Do they make button-fronts?

Wranglers are readily available around here but they're all zipper. Diesel makes button fronts but they're far to expensive to wear to work. I have a passionate hatred of zippers. (In the Bible there's only one recorded case of a woman performing a circumcision, and her name is Zipporah... coincidence?)

Any freeper that can suggest alternate button fronts, please speak up.

[Grampa Dave]

ST posted, "Now they want to be the definition of homosexual gun-hating.

Add to your comment anti Boy Scout, pro radical enviralists who hate America/Americans and pro illegal Aliens to sell more jeans here in America!

They are even worse than Disney and KMart was before it fired Rosie the pig.

I have not bought any of their over priced Levi's since 1995 when their pro gay/anti gun doctrine came out loud and clear in 1995!

[Drango]

gnarledmaw is happy to pay extra for the tarff on steel and lumber. Now gnarledmaw wants to pay extra for jeans.

While that's cool with me, why do they have to drag the rest of us into it?