In January, Levi Strauss closed its last two U.S. plant operations, both in San Antonio, laying-off 800 workers. Workers at the San Antonio plants have sewn and finished jeans for a quarter century. Levi Strauss will be contracting out this work to manufacturers in foreign countries with cheaper labor cost. For more than a decade, Levi Strauss has been closing plants and laying off workers. After massive layoffs in 1990 Fuerza Unida quickly emerged. For years, the DataCenter has been assisting Fuerza Unida’s efforts to carry forward the long-term struggle for Levi workers’ rights and to publicize the growing disparities at home and abroad of apparel industry outsourcing strategies. In the midst of these new closures, Levi Strauss is negotiating with the Union of Needletrades Industrial and Textile Employees (UNITE) over severance packages. Fuerza Unida is working to make sure that UNITE and the workers have the best information to negotiate a fair deal. To support the workers’ demands, we provided research on past worker severance packages and compared these to current executive compensation and examples of generous executive severance packages.