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Nike faces unprecedented annual meeting revolt over failure to respect worker rights
Historic pact strengthens sportswear workers union rights
A historic agreement which follows two years of negotiations after the Playfair 2008 campaign was signed. The pact which addresses core labour rights issues in Indonesian factories was signed by Indonesian textile, clothing and footwear unions, major supplier factories and the major sportswear brands, including Adidas, Nike and Puma.
Just Pay it: Wage compensation for Indonesian Nike workers
After 11 months of negotiation, a Nike supplier factory has agreed to pay $1m to Indonesian workers for 593,468 hours of unpaid overtime.For the 4,500 workers the deal means that they receive an average of about US$ 220 each.
Nike, adidas and Puma's workers earn poverty wages to pay for European championship endorsements
The three main sportswear sponsors of the UEFA European championship 2016, Nike, adidas and Puma, pay poverty wages to the workers that stitch their shirts, shows a report by Collectif Ethique sur l’étiquette (Clean Clothes Campaign in France), presented in English today. The report ‘Foul Play’ exposes the adverse impact on workers of a business model based on low labour costs and relocation to countries with the lowest wages and weak labour regulation. At the same time these brands invest massively in endorsement deals with players, national teams and clubs. Nike, adidas and Puma's prime concern is economic performance and profit, which will be considerable during the European championship, while the workers come off worst.
Activists disrupt the Copenhagen Fashion Summit to spotlight the deepening crisis of garment workers
- Sustainable fashion MUST be sustainable for garment workers. - H&M, Nike and Bestseller have no place supporting "Global Fashion Agenda" while the workers in their supply chains are starving. - Clean Clothes Campaign makes CFS+ (the online Copenhagen Fashion Summit event) its own magazine with the stories that CFS+ left out of its programme. - Global fashion brands need to commit to the wage assurance and #PayYourWorkers.
Brands and retailers need to step up now to protect garment workers
The COVID-19 pandemic is exposing the grossly unequal power relations that define global garment supply chains, with workers paying the price. Today the many organizations behind the world-wide Clean Clothes Campaign network are calling for action from brands and retailers -- as well as governments and other stakeholders -- that aims to mitigate the impact of this crisis on those already most exploited in supply chains and to build towards a future in which workers have access to living wages and a social safety net.
H&M, Nike and Primark use pandemic to squeeze factory workers in production countries even more
In a hard-hitting new research report, Clean Clothes Campaign finds that H&M, Nike and Primark have driven factory workers in their supply chains in Bangladesh, Cambodia and Indonesia into desperation during the COVID-19 pandemic. Interviews conducted with 49 garment workers in these countries demonstrate that the Coronavirus-induced crisis continues to have a devastating impact on the wages, working conditions, and labour rights of garment workers.
Leading rights groups call on Nike to push its supplier Ramatex to remediate supply chain abuses in Cambodia
58 leading labour and human rights groups are demanding sportswear giant Nike end its standoff with Thai and Cambodian garment workers to finally fulfill its human rights commitments and pay its supply chain workers the $2.2 million in unpaid wages and benefits they have been waiting for since 2020. The workers of the Violet Apparel factory, owned by Nike’s primary manufacturing partner, the multi-million dollar conglomerate Ramatex Group, were denied $1.4 million in legal benefits since the Violet Apparel factory closed in 2020.
Nike under fire over the sportswear giant’s three-year refusal to pay its garment workers
Nike is facing growing pressure in anticipation of its online AGM on 12 September over its steadfast refusal to pay more than 4000 garment workers $2.2 million in unpaid wages and benefits since 2020. Unprecedented concerns are mounting from Nike investors, human rights groups, unions, and consumers that Nike has become a corporate outlier on human rights issues, once again achieving notoriety for failing to ensure that women workers in their supply chain are given their basic rights, despite the company’s own stated commitments and code of conduct.
Activists disrupt Nike’s Olympic advertising extravaganza with unpaid workers’ demands
Spending its largest marketing budget in Olympic history, sportswear giant Nike has taken over Paris with advertising, including a screen spanning the Centre Pompidou museum. Activists yesterday evening raised the hypocrisy of Nike’s billion dollar marketing spend while refusing workers in its supply chain the $2.2 million in outstanding wages and compensation they are legally owed, through an action at the heart of Nike’s advertising.
Ahead of Nike’s record Olympic spend, investors and activists urge Nike to settle debt with workers
On the eve of the Olympic games, a coalition of human rights advocates and major Nike investors are calling on the sportswear giant to pay garment workers in their supply chain the $2.2 million they have been owed for four years. Nike has spent more on this Olympics and is more visible at the games than ever before. While Nike is throwing billions at trying to bolster its image 70 investors are publicly demanding the company pay their workers and are bringing the issue to Nike’s September annual meeting through a resolution.
Victory for newly unionised garment workers in Nike factory, Sri Lanka
After months of struggle and uncertainty, 18 workers of a Nike sock factory in Sri Lanka, who were suspended for forming a branch union, are now back at their jobs with the branch union in place. This victory shows that union busting has no place in garment supply chains and that workers standing together and international solidarity can make a real difference.
Breaking Point
In this report, published July 2021, Clean Clothes Campaign conducted interviews with 49 garment workers in the supply chains of H&M, Nike and Primark in Bangladesh, Cambodia and Indonesia. The interviews show that the Coronavirus-induced crisis continues to have a devastating impact on the wages, working conditions, and labour rights of garment workers.
Joint statement in support of former Violet Apparel workers
58 leading organisations in the field of labour and human rights signed a statement, published on 20 July 2023, in support of the struggle of the former Violet Apparel workers for their legally owed termination payments - calling out factory group Ramatex and its main buyer Nike.
Nike Lies
This long-read by Worker-driven Social Responsibility Network and Clean Clothes Campaign from July 2024 sums up and debunks the false arguments Nike has used in the past four years to not pay the workers of the Violet Apparel and Hong Seng Knitting factories what they are owed.
We are not machines: Indonesian Nike and adidas workers
Despite some small steps forward, poverty and fear still dominate the lives of Nike and Adidas workers in Indonesia, March 2002.
Nike turns its back on Cambodian workers
Nike’s Annual General Meeting will be held on September 12. The brand will likely dazzle its shareholders with the results achieved since its June announcement of a 10 per cent annual revenue increase up to US$51.2bn.