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He offers an educational workshops called "Beyond the Swoosh" where he shares his experiences living with Nike's factory workers and his decade long effort to end sweatshop abuses. [3] After a decade of activism, Indonesian Nike supplier PT Nikomas Gemiland repaid 4437 production workers for 600,000 hours of forced unpaid labor. [4]
A study by the Nike-founded Global Alliance for Workers and Communities found that 70% of Nike factory workers in Thailand rated their supervisors as good, and 72% thought their income was fair. In Vietnam, most workers "thought the factory was a 'good place to work' and planned to continue at least three years," and 85% of those polled felt ...
"Just Pay It" is what sportswear giant Nike (NKE) said it would do on Monday after it agreed to give $1.5 million to a relief fund for 1,800 workers who lost their jobs when two of its suppliers ...
February 27, 2007 – An American supply worker was killed by a suicide bomber at Bagram Air Base. [16] [better source needed] March 8, 2007 – A German aid worker was shot and killed in Shar-e-Pul province. [38] He was worked for Deutsche Welthungerhilfe. [39] April 17, 2007 – Four Nepalese PMCs were killed by a roadside bomb in Kabul. [40]
When the coronavirus pandemic hit the U.S. last year, major brands scrambled to cancel some $40 billion worth of orders of apparel from overseas factories. But as many of the same brands recover ...
When it comes to Nike , the undisputed king of athletic footwear, one of the most successful growth stories ever, and now one of the world's greatest companies in general, there is not too much to ...
Twenty-year-old striking hosiery mill worker Alberta Bachman was shot and killed, and two others wounded, by a former striker who had returned to work. The former striker shot into a car he believed was going to throw rocks at his house. Bachman was a member of the American Federation of Full Fashioned Hosiery Workers, striking Mammoth Mills. [195]
Nike's (NYSE: NKE) stock hit an all-time high of $172.49 on Nov. 5, 2021. At the time, investors were impressed by its quick recovery from the pandemic, the ongoing expansion of its Nike Direct ...