TEXTILE JOB LOSSES
April 1st, 2002
BY PHILIP FINE
US textile manufacturers are anxious to tell US Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill how his department's high dollar policy has contributed to devastating job losses for the country's textile and apparel workers.
American Textile Manufacturers Institute spokesman, Cass Johnson, says his organisation would be attending O'Neill's senate banking hearings on May 1st and will also lobby federal officials on how propping up US currency has translated into his sector losing 13 per cent of its workforce in one year.
In 2001, 116 textile mills closed and ...
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