NIKE SWEATSHOPS

"THE MOST POPULAR SHOE." "THE BEST SHOE, EVERYONE HAS A PAIR OF NIKES." These are some comments made on Nike, they are a major clothing and shoe company. They are at the top of the manufactoring change. The question is where do they make thier products? "Workers are paid wages insufficient to meet their basic needs, are not allowed to organize independent unions, and often face health and safety hazards." In other words people work in a sweatshop. Nike does say that because they do not own the factories where their shoes are made, they are not responsiblie, however if they are the main buy to the factories and if the factories is only making thier shoes is their a difference. I would think not its the same difference. "Vietnamese and Chinese workers still get poverty wages. In all three countries, $4 a day would be considered a decent wage. Nike, a company with $8.7 billion in revenue in 1998 that sells its shoes for $150, can well afford to pay its workers such a meager sum."

You would think that a company makeing that much profit would help out their employees. But what if nike didnt have the opion to pay low wages. Would they get the job done for a regular, real, min. wage. Or would their shoes be $300 or $400.

-http://www.globalexchange.org/campaigns/sweatshops/nike/