You are a huge monster brand and you want to make more money. What do you do? You move you’re factories to a developing country of course! Cliché. I think so.
Now everybody knows salaries of workers in a developing country are almost halved to the salaries in a developed country. Well it seems Hugo Boss are taking a leaf out of almost everybody’s book and moving their factories to Eastern Europe and Turkey.
Unfortunately for them Danny Glover had something to say about this. At the recent Academy Awards he urged the male stars to not wear Hugo Boss suits as the workers in the Cleveland factories would be made unemployed.
The boycott was successful with none of the male stars wearing Hugo Boss. Hollywood felt somebody had to stand up for the 300 workers who were made unemployed in the US.
Which is well and good but what about the workers in Eastern Europe and Turkey? Those countries have weak economies and high unemployment rates. Someone like Hugo boss could create jobs and support the economies of said countries. If everybody stops buying products from Hugo Boss what will happen to the possible job creation in Europe and Turkey?
Labour jobs in such countries are important to reducing unemployment and supporting the economy. This leads to empowerment to make better choices for one’s self.
If Hugo Boss is in fact going to open factories in Eastern Europe and Turkey then the least they can do is make sure everyone working in those factories is paid fairly and the working environment is clean and up to code with health and safety. It would be depressing to hear in a few years time that Hugo Boss has gone down the same road of many other businesses and not considered the people when deciding to make such a drastic decision.
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