RE: [PEN-L:9697] Nike (fwd)

[Matt Stannard <mstannard@AC.CEU.EDU>]

CAPITALISM AT ITS FINEST.  IT'S JUST GOOD BUSINESS SENSE,
DARNIT!


> What do you debators think of this?
> 
> 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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> JUST DO IT! BOYCOTT NIKE
> http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Acropolis/5232
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