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Investors including $244bn Dutch pension fund PGGM last week sent a letter to Nike demanding that the sportswear giant “fulfil its human rights responsibilities”, calling on the company to ensure...
Nike, Inc. has been accused of using sweatshops and worker abuse to produce footwear and apparel in East Asia.
In 1991, American labour activist Jeffrey Ballinger published a report on Nike’s factory practices in Indonesia, exposing a scandal: below-minimum wages, child labour and appalling conditions likened to a sweatshop – a factory or workshop where employees work long hours for low money in conditions that are hazardous to health.
In March 2020, a damning report from the Australian Strategic Policy Institute revealed that the Chinese government was forcing hundreds of young Uyghur women to produce Nike shoes in the Taekwang factory in Laixi City. Nike says the factory has stopped using forced labor.
Now, Nike’s sweatshop problem is threatening a comeback. On July 29, students and activists around the world participated in a day of protest against Nike, organized by United Students Against Sweatshops (USAS). The demonstrations, in cities such as Boston, Washington D.C., Bangalore, and San Pedro Sula in Honduras, represented an escalation ...
In the 1990s, US-based Nike Inc., the largest athletic shoe company in the world, was accused by labour and human rights activists of operating sweatshops in Indonesia, Vietnam and China.
In the 1990s students began boycotting Nike after it became linked to sweatshops. Many were horrified to find their trainers were being made by poorly paid Indonesian workers.
Following the Nike Sweatshop Scandal, numerous non-profit groups have arisen to defend the rights of manufacturing workers. Established in 2000 by Jim Keady, Team Sweat is a group that monitors and rallies against Nike's illegal labor practices, with the goal of stopping these wrongdoings.
The production lines, where adults and, sometimes children, worked in deplorable conditions, earned a derogatory nickname, "sweatshops," and the scandal immediately went global.
Nike was the poster child for cleaning up a scandal-ridden image, but its sweatshop problem is threatening a comeback.