Kenneth Cole. Is it the shoes?
The picture of the billboard showed up on lots of Facebook and blog sites this weekend.
Kenneth Cole, shoe monger and brother-in-law of New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, put up the billboards. They showed a picture of a woman in red with lots of cleavage and a message that teacher unions didn’t care about students. Odd juxtaposition of message and image.
Kenneth Cole doesn’t like unions.
In fact, Cole is complicit in the murder of union organizers in the third world countries where his shoes are made.
Aminul Islam, a head of the Bangladesh Centre for Worker Solidarity (BCWS) and the Bangladesh Garment and Industrial Workers Federation, disappeared from the country’s main textile center of Ashulia on Wednesday after receiving a call from a worker requesting assistance.
“His legs had severe torture marks including a hole made by a sharp object. All
