The Networks are again refusing to air the United Church of Christs TV advertising.

Mainline churches should be silent while Religious Right political leaders get to speak their mind? Do you care?

I really don't like this picture very much. I was just way to chubby in it & the angle from the side doesn't help a bit. The picture must have been taken on a Thursday as I used to always wear a lavender shirt on Thursday.

The yellow baskets with the empty boxes on it is called the monoveyor.

I am cleaning up some of the images from my computer at work. This picture is a few years old, I am showing Stacy how to orderfill. Gee there sure are a lot of boxes.

Plant Closing

I learned Tuesday that my employer, Levi Strauss & Company is closing the plant where I have worked for the last 11 years. Although I wasn't too angry with Levi's over the decision, I am still angry over the cause. If there had not been so much competative pressure in the garment industry I would likely continue to be employed by this most progressive company for years to come. Levi's has layed off over 20,ooo people during the course of my employment there.

Levi's could not compete with the other garment makers making most of their clothes in the USA while other companies were manufacturing in China and other low paying places. Thus they had to make the shift in order to remain competative and survive.

I am not opposed to giving people in less developed countries decent jobs. I am however disturbed that most of these people do not have decent jobs. Levi Strauss & Co. has been diligent in making sure that their contractors maintain safe and comfortable working environments. I know that people manufacturing our product in other countries probably are much better off than they would be making Lee or Wrangler. I wish that we could make a fair way for people here to keep decent employment while also empowering people in less developed parts of the world.

I recognize that the world is changing and becoming a global community.
My biggest issue is that the rich industrialists are getting LOTS richer and the middle class is struggling to stay alive while the poor are being abused.

I will be speaking more about how I personally feel about the plant closure and other such things over the next few months. Yes, they did give us lots of warning.

You are Julian of Norwich! It's all about God, to
you. You're convinced that the world has a
happy ending. Everyone else is convinced that
you're a closet hippie, but you love them
anyway.