Thats right, NIKE uses slave labor, not like its news or anything... AND Converse was bought by NIKE in 1997 so burn your Chucks while your at it... Your not 'punk rock' when you support oppression!
More than a decade ago, shoe giant Nike came under fire for its use of sweatshop labor in the production of its products. Most of the criticism focused on its Indonesian workforce, where workers, largely young women, were forced to labor under harsh conditions and abusive supervisors. In 1997, filmmaker Michael Moore made Nike’s abuses a subject of his film “The Big One,” and met with Nike CEO Phil Knight. Knight explained that the reason his company was using low-wage labor in Indonesia is because “Americans don’t want to make shoes.”
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I'd love to make shoes for a living wage.
ReplyDeleteI'd love to do *anything* for a living wage.
Ugh.