<p>Nike Says Its Factory Workers Earn Nearly Double the Minimum Wage. At This Cambodian Factory, 1% Made That Much.<br>—</p><p>Nike has made an expansive effort to convince consumers, investors and others that it is improving the lives of factory workers who make its products, not exploiting them. A rare view of wages at one Cambodian factory tests this claim.<br><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/nike-wages-clothing-factory-cambodia?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/nike-wages-clothing-factory-cambodia?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/nik</span><span class="invisible">e-wages-clothing-factory-cambodia?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/nike/" rel="tag">#Nike</a> <a href="/tags/cambodia/" rel="tag">#Cambodia</a> <a href="/tags/labor/" rel="tag">#Labor</a> <a href="/tags/work/" rel="tag">#Work</a> <a href="/tags/abuse/" rel="tag">#Abuse</a> <a href="/tags/exploitation/" rel="tag">#Exploitation</a> <a href="/tags/business/" rel="tag">#Business</a></p>
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<p>Former employees of a Nike clothing factory in Cambodia said they sometimes saw two or three people taken to an onsite clinic in a day. One described how he carried workers who were too weak to walk.<br><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/nike-factory-cambodia-fainting?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/nike-factory-cambodia-fainting?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/nik</span><span class="invisible">e-factory-cambodia-fainting?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/nike/" rel="tag">#Nike</a> <a href="/tags/cambodia/" rel="tag">#Cambodia</a> <a href="/tags/factory/" rel="tag">#Factory</a> <a href="/tags/labor/" rel="tag">#Labor</a> <a href="/tags/work/" rel="tag">#Work</a> <a href="/tags/business/" rel="tag">#Business</a></p>
<p>A close look at Nike’s massive supply chain offers a case study in the possible ripple effects of the escalating global trade war and shows how vulnerable factory workers could get squeezed.<br><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/nike-trump-tariffs-impact-workers-prices?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/nike-trump-tariffs-impact-workers-prices?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/nik</span><span class="invisible">e-trump-tariffs-impact-workers-prices?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/tariffs/" rel="tag">#Tariffs</a> <a href="/tags/nike/" rel="tag">#Nike</a> <a href="/tags/labor/" rel="tag">#Labor</a> <a href="/tags/workers/" rel="tag">#Workers</a> <a href="/tags/trade/" rel="tag">#Trade</a> <a href="/tags/business/" rel="tag">#Business</a></p>
<p>Nike Repeatedly Raised Concerns About Repression in Cambodia. It Expanded Its Factory Workforce There Anyway.<br>—</p><p>Nike’s continued growth in Cambodia underscores the level of political and labor repression the company has been willing to tolerate in countries that provide inexpensive labor.<br><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/nike-employment-cambodia-labor-rights?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/nike-employment-cambodia-labor-rights?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/nik</span><span class="invisible">e-employment-cambodia-labor-rights?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/nike/" rel="tag">#Nike</a> <a href="/tags/cambodia/" rel="tag">#Cambodia</a> <a href="/tags/labor/" rel="tag">#Labor</a> <a href="/tags/factory/" rel="tag">#Factory</a> <a href="/tags/business/" rel="tag">#Business</a> <a href="/tags/laborrights/" rel="tag">#LaborRights</a></p>
<p>ProPublica reporter Rob Davis began with a simple question: Had Nike truly become a beacon of environmental stewardship and fair labor practices, as it claimed?</p><p>To find the answer, he had to travel across the Pacific Ocean.</p><p><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/nike-labor-practices-cambodia-column?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/nike-labor-practices-cambodia-column?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/nik</span><span class="invisible">e-labor-practices-cambodia-column?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a><br><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/nike/" rel="tag">#Nike</a> <a href="/tags/environment/" rel="tag">#Environment</a> <a href="/tags/labor/" rel="tag">#Labor</a> <a href="/tags/work/" rel="tag">#Work</a> <a href="/tags/business/" rel="tag">#Business</a> <a href="/tags/cambodia/" rel="tag">#Cambodia</a></p>
<p>In 1992, Cicih Sukaesih led fellow Indonesian factory workers in a strike, part of a movement that led Nike to create its first code of conduct.</p><p>She's proud of the example she set. But she described her work as incomplete, as problems remain, including chronically low wages.<br><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/nike-factory-workers-rights-indonesia-advocate?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/nike-factory-workers-rights-indonesia-advocate?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/nik</span><span class="invisible">e-factory-workers-rights-indonesia-advocate?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/nike/" rel="tag">#Nike</a> <a href="/tags/indonesia/" rel="tag">#Indonesia</a> <a href="/tags/labor/" rel="tag">#Labor</a> <a href="/tags/union/" rel="tag">#Union</a> <a href="/tags/strike/" rel="tag">#Strike</a> <a href="/tags/workers/" rel="tag">#Workers</a> <a href="/tags/advocacy/" rel="tag">#Advocacy</a> <a href="/tags/humanrights/" rel="tag">#HumanRights</a></p>
<p>An average worker at the foreign factories that make Nike’s goods earns 1.9 times the local minimum wage, the company says.</p><p>None of the workers The Oregonian/OregonLive spoke with in Nike’s second-largest production hub said they earned that much.<br><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/nike-wages-clothing-shoe-factory-indonesia?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/nike-wages-clothing-shoe-factory-indonesia?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/nik</span><span class="invisible">e-wages-clothing-shoe-factory-indonesia?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/indonesia/" rel="tag">#Indonesia</a> <a href="/tags/labor/" rel="tag">#Labor</a> <a href="/tags/work/" rel="tag">#Work</a> <a href="/tags/humanrights/" rel="tag">#HumanRights</a> <a href="/tags/nike/" rel="tag">#Nike</a> <a href="/tags/wages/" rel="tag">#Wages</a></p>
<p>Nike Is Moving Jobs to Low-Wage Regions of Indonesia<br>---</p><p>Over the last decade, Nike has sharply expanded production in regions of Indonesia where workers don’t earn a living wage while cutting its workforce in places where they do.<br><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/nike-jobs-indonesia-living-wages?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/nike-jobs-indonesia-living-wages?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/nik</span><span class="invisible">e-jobs-indonesia-living-wages?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/nike/" rel="tag">#Nike</a> <a href="/tags/indonesia/" rel="tag">#Indonesia</a> <a href="/tags/labor/" rel="tag">#Labor</a> <a href="/tags/jobs/" rel="tag">#Jobs</a> <a href="/tags/work/" rel="tag">#Work</a> <a href="/tags/wages/" rel="tag">#Wages</a> <a href="/tags/factory/" rel="tag">#Factory</a></p>