After the so-called North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) was passed, many U.S. manufacturers closed their plants, packed up their jobs and moved to Mexico to take advantage of cheap labor, no unions, lower taxes and lax or non existent environmental laws. Levi-Strauss and Company was one of the first corporations to abandon America for greener pastures in Mexico. Levi saw lucrative profits waiting for them in Mexico, and without concern for American workers, they said adios to their American work force. Levi Strauss and Company dropped American workers like a bag of rotten potatoes and flipped us the bird.