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A Call to Arms: How We Must Take the Fight to Nike

Jim Keady | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Workers' Rights, Team Sweat, Indonesia, Nike, Wages, Sweatshops, Nike Workers Indonesia, Nike Workers, Nike Workers Honduras, Impact News
Jim Keady

Nike said that they would never pay out severance to workers in Honduras. But because of workers and consumers fighting together, Nike did pay out. We can make them meet workers' demands again.

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Nike Workers: "We Want to Fight, but We Don't Know How."

Jim Keady | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Jim Keady, Team Sweat, Indonesia, Nike, Sweatshops, Indonesian Workers, World News
Jim Keady

I shared with them that these Nike executives are getting rich, Nike investors are getting rich, athletes that endorse Nike are getting rich, but the workers who produced the real wealth for Nike continue to live in abject poverty.

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Why is Nike Afraid of Disclosing what their Overseas Factory Workers are Paid?

Jim Keady | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Team Sweat, Corporate Social Responsibility, Nike, Labor Rights, Sweatshops, Impact News
Jim Keady

To date, Nike has refused to disclose this information and we are left asking, "If Nike feels confident that workers are being paid a fair wage, why are they afraid of making this information public?"

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When Will Nike "Just Do It" On The Sweatshop Issue?

Jim Keady | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Jim Keady, Team Sweat, Nike, Sweatshops, Impact News
Jim Keady

Twelve years ago I got involved in the fight to end Nike's sweatshop abuses. Nike has consistently lied about working conditions and many consumers, even so-called progressives, believe that Nike "fixed those sweatshop problems." They did not.

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