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Posted: Tue 13:00, 03 Sep 2013 Post subject: Nike admits foreign contractors abuse workers |
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Nike admits foreign contractors abuse workers
In this photo taken July 12, 2011, a shop attendant stands near Converse shoes on display at a store in Jakarta, Indonesia. Workers making Converse sneakers in Indonesia said supervisors throw shoes at them, slap them in the face and call them dogs and pigs. Nike,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], the brand's owner, admits that such abuses have occurred among the contractors that make its hip high-tops but claims there was little it could do to stop it.
Photo: Irwin Fedriansyah,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], AP
In this photo taken July 12, 2011, a shop attendant stands near.
In this photo taken May 26, 2011, workers leave a factory that make Converse shoes,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], in Gunung Putri, West java, Indonesia. Workers making Converse sneakers in Indonesia said supervisors throw shoes at them,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], slap them in the face and call them dogs and pigs. Nike, the brand's owner, admits that such abuses have occurred among the contractors that make its hip high-tops but claims there was little it could do to stop it.
Photo: Achmad Ibrahim,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], AP
In this photo taken May 26, 2011,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], workers leave a factory that make.
Sukabumi, Indonesia -- Workers making Converse sneakers in Indonesia say supervisors throw shoes at them,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], slap them in the face and call them dogs and pigs. Nike, the brand's owner, admits that such abuse has occurred among the contractors that make its hip high-tops but claims there was little it could do to stop it.
Dozens of workers say,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], and a document released by Nike shows, that the footwear and athletic apparel giant has far to go to meet the standards it set for itself a decade ago to end its reliance on sweatshop labor.
That does not appear to explain abuses that workers allege at the Pou Chen Group factory in Sukabumi, about 60 miles from Jakarta - it didn't start making Converse products until four years after Nike bought Converse. One worker there said she was kicked by a supervisor last year after making a mistake while cutting rubber for soles.
"We're powerless," said the woman,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], who like several others spoke on condition of anonymity out of fear of reprisals. "Our only choice is to stay and suffer, or speak out and be fired."
The 10,000 mostly female workers at the Taiwanese-operated Pou Chen plant make around 50 cents an hour. That's enough, for food and bunkhouse-type lodging, but little else. Some workers in March and April described being hit or scratched in the arm. Others said they were fired after filing complaints.
"They throw shoes and other things at us" said a 23-year-old woman in the embroidery division. "They growl and slap us when they get angry."
, 30,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], said she was fired in 2009 for taking sick leave,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], even though she produced a doctor's note.
"It was a horrible job,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych]," she said. "Our bosses pointed their feet at us, calling us names like dog, pig or monkey." All are major insults to Muslims. Indonesia is the world's most populous Muslim nation.
At the PT Amara Footwear factory located just outside Jakarta, where another Taiwanese contractor makes Converse shoes,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], a supervisor ordered six female workers to stand in the blazing sun after they failed to meet their target of completing 60 dozen pairs of shoes on time.
The company's own inquiries also found workers at the two factories were subjected to "serious and egregious" physical and verbal abuse, including the punishment of forcing workers to stand in the sun, said ,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], a Nike executive who oversees the company's efforts to improve working conditions.
Nike, which came under heavy criticism a decade ago for its use of foreign sweatshops and child labor, has taken steps since then to improve conditions at its 1,000 overseas factories. But the progress it has made at factories producing gear with its premier "swoosh" logo is not fully reflected in those making Converse products.
An internal Nike report about the abuse shows that nearly two-thirds of 168 factories making Converse products worldwide fail to meet Nike's own standards for contract manufacturers,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych].
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