News Flash: Employer Ordered Not To Relocate To Mexico

One day after employees voted to be represented by a union, Quadrtech Corp., which employs 118 minimum-wage jewelry assemblers at a Gardena factory, announced plans to move its operations to Mexico and lay off the workers. But a federal judge found that the timing of the move suggested it was an anti-union action and issued an injunction to block the relocation. After the judge ordered Quadrtech to bring back several truckloads of equipment that had already been sent to Tijuana, the company agreed to stay put, hire back all workers, cancel contracts for work in Mexico and recognize and bargain with the union.