3/5/2015: No, of course I’m not talking about the $30K that UO administrators get each year as part of the lousy apparel contract they signed with Nike. That seems like an interesting potential conflict of interest, but I’m sure UO’s Office of Internal Audit has carefully vetted it, just as they must have…
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7/26/2010: Sure enough, Nike folds and pays the back wages themselves, according to Steven Greenhouse in the NY Times. Though they can’t quite bring themselves to admit that: A Nike spokeswoman, Kate Meyers, said Monday that the $1.5 million was for “a worker relief fund” and was not for severance.…
7/18/2010: The NYT has a story on the WRC plan: convince socially progressive shoppers to pay more for college branded clothing from factories that pay a “living wage”. Add political action and boycotts to taste. Then there’s the Nike method: just create a lot of new jobs and let labor…
3/7/2010: Great story by Richard Read in the Oregonian about what all those exploited Nike sweatshop workers are doing: Saving their paychecks, sending the money home to build houses and finance new businesses. It turns out that factory workers — not the activists labeled “preachy” by one expert, and not…