But in 2002, as local workers sought to unionize, the company prepared to close down their Salvadorean factory, citing insufficient contracts as a pretext. At the same time they distributed a blacklist of individuals involved in labor organizations to other companies with factories in El Salvador, to bar "troublemakers" from gaining employment.
然而，2002 年，在工人試圖組織自主工會的過程中，資方卻以「訂單不足」為由，準備關廠，並製作參與工會的工人黑名單，在加工區企業主之間流傳，永不錄用。