The Oscars: Danny Glover calling on boycott of Hugo Boss suits

As Sundays Oscars approaches, we'll see styles that set the trend for the year and some wearing traditional brands, like Hugo Boss. Actor Danny Glover's not going to be one of them and he's issuing a call to celebrities like Sean Penn, who's presenting and Oscar nominees Colin Firth, Matt Damon, and Quentin Tarantino, to name just some of the male actors, not to wear Hugo Boss suits.

In a letter, Danny Glover says that he's writing to take a "small stand" for American workers. Hugo Boss is reportedly set to close American plants and fire "more than 300 workers".

According to the SEIU Workers United...

They say they want to make suits more cheaply in Turkey or Eastern Europe. They don’t even claim the Cleveland factory is losing money -- they just say they need to make a bit more money. Please.

It's clear that the one major cause of America's economic decline has bee the offshoring of jobs. This blogger estimates that $976 billion in wealth has been lost in over 30 years of this process; over $400 billion over the last eight years. Some economists have pointed to the sub-prime loan system as the reason for America's problems, but it takes a job to pay a loan. The real problem has been that the rate of growth in the number American jobs has been negative, not positive.

No word on the reaction of Oscar stars to the boycott of Hugo Boss by Danny Glover.

Stay tuned.