Levi Strauss Forms Gun-Control Group with Bloomberg, Pushes Employees to Donate

[mountaineer]

Levi Strauss Forms Gun-Control Group with Bloomberg, Pushes Employees to Donate
Clothing company plans to spend millions advocating new gun-control laws

BY: Stephen Gutowski   Follow @@StephenGutowski
September 4, 2018 4:35 pm

Levi Strauss announced on Tuesday it would be creating a new gun-control group with billionaire Michael Bloomberg and donating millions of dollars to a collection of established gun-control groups.

The clothing company said it would be partnering with Everytown for Gun Safety and Michael Bloomberg to form Everytown Business Leaders for Gun Safety in a blogpost on their website. It also said it would set up the Safer Tomorrow Fund, which Levi Strauss said would direct more than $1 million over the next four years to "fuel the work of nonprofits and youth activists who are working to end gun violence in America." The company went on to say it would begin doubling the amount it matches for employee donations to gun-control groups aligned with the fund and pushed employees to use their five hours a month in paid volunteer time at the gun-control groups.

Levi Strauss said while they had already requested customers not carry firearms in their store in 2016 and had supported gun-control initiatives in the past, they felt they needed to become more politically involved in the issue.

"We have a gun violence epidemic in America, and companies like ours—that operate in American communities—can no longer watch from the sidelines," a Levi Strauss spokesperson told the Washington Free Beacon. "Although LS&Co. has taken some action to support gun-violence prevention over the last two decades, we believe there is a bigger role that business can play in effecting real change. Through our newly established Safer Tomorrow Fund and involvement in the Everytown Business Leaders for Gun Safety coalition, we hope to catalyze others to join us and be part of stemming gun violence in this country."

The company did not respond to questions about what specific gun-control laws it hopes to enact through its activism.  ...

Full Story at Free Beacon

Good grief, Nike, Levi Strauss - big companies are really shooting themselves in the proverbial feet, aren't they?

[ABX]

Full Story at Free Beacon

Good grief, Nike, Levi Strauss - big companies are really shooting themselves in the proverbial feet, aren't they?

The way this week is going, by Friday, the homeless shelters will have a lot of new donations and those prone to join boycotting will have empty closets.

[thackney]

Cowboys wear Wranglers.  You can tell when a bull rider really lands hard on his seat.  The ground will say "WOW" when he gets up.

[roamer_1]

Cowboys wear Wranglers.  You can tell when a bull rider really lands hard on his seat.  The ground will say "WOW" when he gets up.

LOL!
That's right.
Ain't wore Levis since they cheesed up the 501 button fly back when there was a mechanical bull in every bar...

But Wrangler ain't all that anymore either... For full-on bullet-proof, around here, a lot of folks are going Carhartt.

[Frank Cannon]

What type of deadbeat K-Mart shopping losers still wear Levis? Lucky or 7 for All Mankind are where it's at.

[mountaineer]

Nike, NFL, and Levis Strauss Political Business Strategy – The Much Bigger Geopolitical and Trade Picture….
Posted on September 4, 2018   
by sundance

...  The multinational Wall Street firms are aligning with domestic political positions that align with Democrats; that is to say they align against President Trump and the economic/trade policy therein.

The agenda is to defeat the Trump-trade-reset; however, they, in this example Levi Strauss, cannot openly side with China and Asia against the United States.  The PR optics would be horrible…. So they do it covertly by supporting domestic political policies and opposition toward the President who is threatening the construct of their multinational business model.

Together the NFL, Nike and Levi Strauss stand to retain their current level of trade benefit (profit) if President Trump is blocked from instituting America-First trade and manufacturing policies.   Supporting gun control (Levi Strauss) or supporting BLM/Antifa (Nike) is simply a tool to support the political opposition of the policy-maker adverse to their financial interests.  ...  Entire article at Conservative Treehouse