Gap: Here's why we partnered with Levi Strauss Co. in solidarity against the Bill

[cal04]

https://twitter.com/GapInc

Keeping Store Doors Open to All in Indiana
http://www.letsdomore.com/blogs/keeping-store-doors-open-all-indiana/

In 2012, a couple in Colorado walked into a bakery to order a cake for their upcoming wedding. The baking, however, never began.

The couple's order was denied because they were gay. This set off a legal battle, and an ongoing conversation around the equal rights of American customers that's continuing today.

The conversation is hitting a new peak. Last week, Indiana Gov. Mike Pence signed a state law that prohibits any legal action that would “substantially burden" a person's ability to follow his or her religious beliefs — including when it comes to running a business. Critics claim that the law would allow for open discrimination against LGBT people — such as the Colorado bakery — as well as hotels, restaurants, landlords and other businesses.

Since the law was signed, many businesses have come out against the legalized discrimination — as well as similar laws waiting in the legislature wings of other states, including Arkansas.

Gap Inc. and Levi's Strauss & Co., in a rare partnership from two apparel companies, condemned the law together.



Editor's Note: The following is a joint blog post from Art Peck, Gap Inc. CEO and Chip Bergh, Levi Strauss & Co. CEO.

Today Gap Inc. and Levi Strauss & Co. are calling on retail and apparel companies, and other businesses, to join us in speaking out against legalized discrimination.

Both of our companies have a long history of standing up for equal rights and equal opportunity for all. We have consistently spoken out against discrimination and unequal treatment based on race, sex or sexual orientation.

As Indiana, Arkansas, and states around the country enact and consider legislation that perpetuates discrimination, we’re urging State Legislatures to stand up for equality by repealing and voting against these discriminatory laws.


more at link
http://blogs.gapinc.com/blog/2015/3/30/calling-on-retailers-to-raise-their-voices-against-discrimin.html

[fadedrose]

1. Indiana needs Levi's more than Levi needs Indiana nt

[Cha]

2. mahalo cal.. from your link!

"Discriminatory laws are unquestionably bad for business, but more importantly, they are fundamentally wrong," they wrote in a joint blog post. "At Gap Inc. and Levi Strauss & Co., we are proud to say we are open to business for everyone."

[ND-Dem]

9. and we're proud to say we'll sweat our labor, whatever color, sexual orientation, or even age.

2015:

WASHINGTON -- Faced with footage of Bangladeshi girls as young as 12 working on jeans with "Old Navy" labels, Old Navy's parent company, Gap Inc., says it believes one of its contractors may have improperly sold its product to a wholesaler without its knowledge...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/27/gap-inc-old-navy-jeans-bangladesh_n_3822923.html

2007:

Child workers, some as young as 10, have been found working in a textile factory in conditions close to slavery to produce clothes that appear destined for Gap Kids, one of the most successful arms of the high street giant... the children described long hours of unwaged work, as well as threats and beatings.

Gap said it was unaware that clothing intended for the Christmas market had been improperly subcontracted to a sweatshop using child labour...The discovery of the children working in filthy conditions in the Shahpur Jat area of Delhi has renewed concerns about the outsourcing by large retail chains of their garment production to India, recognised by the United Nations as the world's capital for child labour...

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2007/oct/28/ethicalbusiness.retail

Nothing changes but the bullshit.

[sheshe2]

3. KnR

Thanks cal04!

[libdem4life]

4. Brings a smile to my face. Now, as to the other bigoted states...they'd best be

taking notes. Once something this important goes viral, makes unthinking robots start to think...and that is what changes things.

[Agschmid]

5. Kick!

[Unknown Beatle]

6. Fuck Levi's!

Ever since they closed the last Levi's U.S. factory in San Antonio in 2003 to outsource their factories to other countries, I haven't bought any of their products.

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/19/us/as-levi-s-work-is-exported-stress-stays-home.html

[ND-Dem]

8. +100. But they made some nice statement, which doesn't affect their bottom line, so oh yay!

Now I'm finally putting it all together;
Borderlines don't hold my loyalty.
They don't care who is the drone; hands of yellow, black, or brown.
Profit is their only deity.
As corporate hands of power reach around the world,
They'll strangle any weak neck they can find.

[ND-Dem]

7. Too bad they're both anti-labor. But they'll sweat it, whatever color or sexual orientation it

has.