Thursday, December 10, 2009

Nike sweatshops..forced labor

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9ZktmrGGMU

Its so sad that a company so huge and rich could something like this. The head quarters are in the US and they have people making millions of dollars like Tiger Woods to represent the Nike Swoosh. Where has the world come to? Child labor, cheap wages, poor living conditions, long hours of work, forced labor, fraud contracts promising them something in return, and also they recruit people to work off of the street.
Reason behind this whole thing is that Americans do not want to make these things. For example shoes, clothes, and other things. Americans want to just buy these goods from a local mall and call it a day. Americans in comparison to people seen in this film are lazy. We have it so easy here. So Nike recruits people that need money to live and who will make it. Cheap labor=selling them for more than what they are really worth to= a rich, successful company.

After I think about this it makes me kind of think that I will never wear Nike shoes again. I haven't boughten Nike products since 2007. It wasn't that long ago but I'm trying to keep it that way.

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