Tag: NAFTA

Gear for Sports, a leading supplier of licensed apparel(also part of the Hanes, Champion, Under Armour umbrella)has decided that employing 125 Americans was too costly and are now moving a screen print and embroidery shop to Mexico. Hanesbrands to Close Gear for Sports Plant Hanesbrands will shutter a Missouri plant…

One of the key differences in ideology in the past election was trade. Russ Feingold has always been the champion of of the “fair traders” and Ron Johnson came onto the scene touting the wonders of NAFTA/GATT etc… as \"creative destruction\". In a state that has lost over 80,000 jobs…