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To: maceng2 who wrote (37743)	7/30/2008 12:57:05 PM
From: elmatador	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217603

Brazil supplies army boots: Welsh firm snubbed as Army buys its boots from Brazil Independent, The (London), May 5, 2000 by Colin Brown E-mail Print Link THE MINISTRY of Defence last night was accused of "giving the boot" to workers in south Wales by allowing a contract for the Army standard combat boot to go to Brazil. Workers at a footwear factory in Blaina, Gwent, blamed the MoD for its threatened closure with the loss of all 65 jobs. The footwear union said MoD demands for the lowest prices had forced the company, UK Safety, to place a subcontract with a Brazilian firm for the main component of the boot. "We are angry that again a Government department seems to be condoning the export of yet more UK manufacturing jobs," said Phil Markham, district officer of the union findarticles.com