4/10/2010: A reader asks what I think of this story:
MADISON, Wis. — The University of Wisconsin-Madison canceled its licensing agreement with Nike Inc. on Friday, becoming the first university to take that step over concerns about the company’s treatment of workers in Honduras.
Chancellor Biddy Martin said Nike hasn’t done enough to help workers at two factories that abruptly closed last year to collect severance payments they are owed.
I don’t know the details. In general, I think that by contracting with producers in developing countries Phil Knight has increased the wages, working conditions, and future opportunities of hundreds of thousands of the poorest people in the world. And that Dave Frohnmayer was an idiot for having UO join the WRC – or have I mentioned my feelings about Frohnmayer before?
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