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Chinese immigrant textile workers protest jobs being outsourced to China.(HEADLINE)(Brief Article)
Chinese immigrant workers in San Francisco are protesting the loss of garment jobs they say are being outsourced to China. Former employees of apparel maker Nova Knits Inc. say they were laid off last month without prior notice, severance pay or benefits in violation of California state labor laws. The workers--mainly Chinese women who speak little English--say their jobs are being outsourced to China; now the world's largest clothing manufacturer.
For more than thirty years, industrialized nations have maintained textile import quotas to protect their domestic industries from foreign competition; but starting in 1995, the World Trade Organization started phasing out those quotas. They were eliminated altogether this year. This has accelerated the loss of garment jobs in the U.S. and other countries, as apparel ...
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Source: HighBeam Research, Chinese immigrant textile workers protest jobs being outsourced to...