five_alarm
07-29-2003, 09:52 AM
The president of Vancouver's firefighters' union says he and most unionized firefighters will no longer wear the department's winter jacket should allegations the jacket supplier ordered the coats from a manufacturer in a rogue nation be true. The B.C. Ethical Purchasing Group says the jackets the city of Vancouver ordered from Evin Industries Ltd. were made in Burma, a country under military dictatorship and notorious for human rights abuses and shoddy labour practices.
Source: Vancouver Sun... (http://www.firehall.com/cgi-bin/refer?url=http://www.canada.com/search/story.aspx?id=08ceae6f-df82-4986-ac8a-00748afa2268&s=60504153.4480737&linkid=81&parent=news)
Source: Vancouver Sun... (http://www.firehall.com/cgi-bin/refer?url=http://www.canada.com/search/story.aspx?id=08ceae6f-df82-4986-ac8a-00748afa2268&s=60504153.4480737&linkid=81&parent=news)