New York Car Workers And Designers Ask The Government To Save The Garment Industry.

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More than 200 New York

Car clothing factory

Workers, fashion designers and elected officials gathered in FashionDistrict, Manhattan, on the 19 day. They asked the federal government, the municipal government and the industry to save the local clothing industry, set up special industrial protection zones, provide more jobs and jobs, and refused to allow developers to develop the fashion district into new office buildings.

Over the past 30 years, due to the competition and rents of cheap foreign goods, many garment factories in central Manhattan have been closed down or reduced, and the clothing merchants are more willing to shift production lines and job opportunities overseas to reduce the number of jobs in the fashion area to less than 10 thousand.

Such changes make the members of the trade union feel.

crisis

。

Huang Chengguang, President of the Chinese Association of workers' Union (WorkersUnited), who attended the rally and demonstration, said that after 911, the decline of the car clothing factory became more and more obvious. A large number of factories closed down, but the government gave too little support.

In his view, to save the local garment industry, the most important thing is to ensure the source of clothing and increase employment.

Fashion brand

The "change of mind".

The clothing design industry in New York gradually understands that no local clothing industry, many new designers have not created their own business opportunities, design students can not find the car clothing factory graduation design, New York fashion capital is also unworthy of the name.

So members of the American Fashion Designers Association (CFDA) including Deng Yaoli (YeohleeTeng), Xiao Zhimei (MichaelKors), KennethCole and so on also attended the rally to support the demonstration. (AnnaSui)