Saipan Garment Manufacturers Association joined hands again with Concorde Garment Manufacturing Inc., after the Tan Holding\u2019s Corp.\u2019s garment operation, Saipan\u2019s largest apparel plant, reunited with the association on Nov. 1, 2004.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are pleased to have Concorde back and our group whole again. There\u2019s much work to do, and it\u2019s in everyone\u2019s best interest to combine our efforts in our time of urgency and uncertainty,\u201d said SGMA executive director Richard A. Pierce.<\/p>\n
\u201cBy rejoining an association they helped create, Concorde, originally three separate licensed operations, makes us a concerted voice where we are seen as one. This is vital as we focus on a \u2018window of opportunity\u2019 for the life of this industry,\u201d said Pierce.<\/p>\n
Concorde withdrew from SGMA last year, after Emergency Regulations created problems within the factories by allowing employees to move from employer to employer with a loss of quota being charged against the \u201coriginal\u201d employer. <\/p>\n
With a garment industry worker pool created without the demand that used to exist, and with manufacturing firms losing orders to foreign countries due to global competition, the need for workers now falls short of the CNMI\u2019s self-imposed voluntary restraint system; individual factory contract employee quotas and an overall ceiling on the industry totally.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis association still understands why Concorde did what it did in withdrawing from SGMA, and we still cannot accept the \u2018root cause\u2019 for this; counterproductive regulatory control. We are just pleased that Concorde has looked beyond their initial problems, and decided to hold the interests of the group paramount, and in our common good,\u201d said Pierce.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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