Dominican Company to Leave Haiti

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A Dominican factory that makes Levi's jeans in a Haitian free-trade zone plans to close its doors and lay off 700 Haitian employees because of labor disputes, company officials said Wednesday.

Grupo M, one of the Dominican Republic's largest free-trade zone companies, built the $10 million factory a year ago in the border town of Ouanaminthe, Haiti.

The decision is a blow to Haiti, the Americas' poorest country, where most people are jobless and the political situation has become more fragile since the February rebellion that ousted President Jean-Bertrand Aristide.
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Workers at the factory, who make about 750 Haitian Gourds $18 a week and have no health benefits, have been pushing for higher wages and a medical plan over the last two months.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-4191698,00.html


Now the investors start their extortion games, trying to squeeze every possible penny from the starving Haitians.