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[PEN-L:9697] Nike (fwd)
What do you debators think of this?
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Date: Wed, 30 Apr 1997 20:30:31 -0700 (PDT)
From: Tereasa McGowan <n9442408@henson.cc.wwu.edu>
To: Karin Erickson <n9445656@henson.cc.wwu.edu>,
Chris McGowan <cjm@seattleu.edu>
Cc: Kara and Brian Jovag <jovag@fidnet.com>
Subject: [PEN-L:9697] Nike (fwd)
I thought that you would find this interesting.
Tereasa
Associated Press April 27, 1997
NIKE FACTORY IN INDONESIA IS ORDERED SHUT
JAKARTA, Indonesia -- Officials ordered a factory that makes Nike shoes
shut down yesterday after workers burned cars and ransacked its offices,
saying the company was not paying them a $2.50-a-day minimum wage.
Almost half the factory's 10,000 employees took part in Friday's
demonstration at Tangerang, an industrial town outside Jakarta. It was the
second protest in a week against the factory that makes shoes under
contract for Nike Inc.
Two women were hospitalized after police broke up the melee, in which
protesters burned two cars and smashed windows, doors and furniture at the
factory, according to the Republika newspaper. Several police officers and
soldiers suffered minor injuries. No arrests were reported.
Nike and its competitor Reebok deny accusations that they pay Indonesian
workers too little and tolerate poor working conditions at factories run by
contractors.
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