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American Apparel shareholders class action lawsuit filed (immigration, hiring practices) - 09/01/10
American Apparel is being sued in a class action brought on behalf of shareholders due to their allegedly not disclosing how their habit of employing illegal aliens could get them into trouble. In July 2009 their were raided by ICE, who found that one-third of their workforce might be illegal aliens. A couple of months later they laid off one-quarter of their workers. And, throughout it all, they've been "protected" by local leaders who don't see any problems with them employing illegal aliens. American Apparel went as far as hiring the Mexican government-linked Peter Schey to represent them...
American Apparel to lay off quarter of workforce, presumed illegal aliens - 09/04/09
Miriam Jordan of the Wall Street Journal informs us that American Apparel will be laying off about a quarter of their workforce due to a "crackdown" by the Department of Homeland Security (link).
In a letter to employees in English and Spanish, Chief Executive Dov Charney said he was "deeply saddened" that the company has to shed workers who have been at the company for several years.
Mr. Charney, a champion of immigration reform, promised to give the workers priority for jobs when "you are able to get your immigration papers in order."
...American Apparel is likely to face thousands of...
One-third of American Apparel's workforce might be illegal aliens; used "suspect and not valid" work documents - 07/01/09
From this:
A U.S. federal probe has found that about a third of American Apparel's factory workers in the Los Angeles area had supplied suspect or invalid records and were not authorized to work in the United States...
The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency found that some 1,600 current employees at American Apparel's Los Angeles factories appeared to have gained employment due to "suspect and not valid" eligibility documentation, the company said in a filing...
"ICE's notification provided no indication that the company knowingly or intentionally hired unauthorized aliens and no...
Johanna Neuman /LAT "speechless" about Asian name normalization to avoid confusion - 04/09/09
Johanna Neuman of the Los Angeles Times offers "As Obama tackles immigration, Texas legislator suggests immigrants Americanize names" (link).
Villaraigosa, Dellums, Nickels don't want ICE immigration raids of "responsible employers" - 06/20/08
If you want examples of political corruption, illegal immigration is where you should look. The latest example is a resolution proposed by three west coast mayors at this year's Conference of Mayors meeting: they don't want ICE to conduct immigration raids of "responsible employers". Instead, they want them to only raid those companies that are abusing employees and the like.
Fabian Nunez, Mexico-linked Peter Schey, American Apparel join to support illegal immigration - 04/29/08
Yesterday, California Assembly Speaker Fabian Nunez held a press conference at the headquarters of American Apparel to oppose workplace raids and thus support illegal immigration. Also on hand was AA's attorney Peter Schey, someone with at least a few links to the Mexican government. Nunez is also a co-chair of the Hillary Clinton campaign, so asking her about his activities is highly recommended. From the Tiffany Hsu report (link; like Anna Gorman she doesn't mention Schey's links):
"The last thing we need is to bring the type of disruption to our economy that could ultimately lead us into...
Dov Charney/American Apparel: wrong about immigration - 01/22/08
Dov Charney of the L.A.-based American Apparel is running pro-illegal immigration ads that are almost certianly a publicity stunt. This post gives the campaign a little help in that direction, but hopefully some in his target market will read this and decide to get clothing from some other company, whether based on his past history (see the links above) or on the current ads.