Boycott of Sklar Peppler, Alan White brand furniture, and its manufacturer, AW Manufacturing Inc.

The Canadian Labour Congress (CLC) has endorsed a national consumer boycott against Sklar Peppler, Alan White brand furniture, and its manufacturer, AW Manufacturing Inc. After moving to Ajax from Whitby in 2006, Sklar Peppler went into bankruptcy in August of 2008, and approximately 100 Steelworkers were affected.

The President of Sklar Peppler bought the company’s assets out of bankruptcy in late 2008, and proceeded to close the facility. He then bought AW Manufacturing Inc., another furniture manufacturer in Mississippi, and now uses product from that plant in Mississippi to sell to Sklar’s customers. The hard-working Steelworkers that were employed by Sklar Peppler in Canada not only lost their jobs, they lost their severance pay in the bankruptcy proceedings.