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Nike, Inc. has been accused of using sweatshops and worker abuse to produce footwear and apparel in East Asia. After rising prices and the increasing cost of labor in Korean and Taiwanese factories, Nike began contracting in countries elsewhere in Asia, which includes parts of India, Pakistan, and Indonesia.
No more child labor, choked ventilation, abusive bosses, confiscated passports. Companies should apply U.S. working conditions or, at the minimum, follow local laws where they operated. Second, we wanted them to send inspectors to see if those commitments were being met. And most companies did these things. That was the easy part.
In 1996, Life Magazine published an article implicating Nike in the use of child labor in Pakistan. [8] Following the findings, Nike hired Eitel as the first Vice President of Corporate Responsibility.
The FLA was established in 1999 and evolved out of a task force created by President Bill Clinton following a series of child labor and other sweatshop scandals involving major apparel and footwear brands. The apparel and footwear companies and labor and human rights groups involved in the initial task force formed a loose organization known as ...
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Nike reportedly lobbied against a 2020 bill aimed at banning imported goods made by forced labor.The bill — called the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act — focused on the Xinjiang region of China.
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Since the 1990s, Nike has been reported to employ sweat factories and child labour. Regardless of its effort to turn things around, Nike's image has been affected by the issue during the past two decades. Nike established an independent department which aimed to improve workers’ livelihoods in 1996.