Sweatshops Nike

Nike Sweatshop Slavery

Questions to be summarized for "Sweatshops and Nike shoe slavery".

Q1. What is a sweatshop and how bad is the problem?

Ans. A sweatshop is a shop or a factory that the employees have to works for long hours, and get paid less. It is sort of like slavery. The US Department of Labor describes sweatshops as a violation to more than two labor laws for example, those who works for hours and get a low wage and child labor etc...

Q2. Doesn't low-wage sweatshop employment help alleviate poverty; aren't sweatshops a necessary step on the road to economic development?

Ans. No, "In many cases, countries' minimum wages are insufficient to climb out of poverty,"
says Tod Larsen... For example... Wall-Mart has a rate of 43 cents of wage per hour. After only spending money on the daily meals and transportation to work, the every day average worker is always left with around 80 cents per day for their rent, bills, child care, school costs, medicines, emergencies, and other several expenses.

Q3. But if the companies have to cut costs to stay competitive, aren't sweatshops inevitable?

Ans. No, not at all; because the low prices are just one of the many factors that take the account when they shop and the most consumers don't want to purchase goods made in sweatshops like for example, the reports from Sense magazine in 2006 about Dollars; John Miller- He explains how the decent wages have affected on a company's competitiveness. Another article is from Mexico's apparel industry, talking about the Political Economy Research Institute that found out about the the increasing of the wages given from non supervisory workers that added $1.80 to a $100 men jacket... Some reasonable working hours that don't threaten countries have just a normal 17 hour working hours for employees so that the Americans save at least a few dollars for clothing.

This is a link to watch a video based on "Nike Contractor in Malaysia using forced labour:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Qzm7MCusGM

What I learned from this video is that most of the people that work for Nike in Malaysia are paid less than 6 dollars per day and less than 45 Australian dollars per 6 days in a week. The company that the people both Vietnamese and different other Asians that have been forced to work or tricked to work for the Nike company; life for example, human trafficking that has been led to most of Asia from the Nike shoes company.This also shows that the recent workers that have been generally working for the Nike comapny have been tricked to work there because of advertisements and banners that have been set up so people can buy their productions and most got forced to work there by lying and traaping them; like for example, the vietnamese workers that were secretly found and they said that they can't escape because they had too little money and they also said that their passports were confiscated, and they told them to sign three year contracts in a different language that they didn't understand; it was like a virtual prison for them.

This is another video about basically "Nike sweatshops - Try not to cry"

the link to this webiste is:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xVuScVCF1Ws&feature=related

What I learned from this video was that "Nike is a transnational company" and the workers work for 16 hours a day and 7 days a week and sometimes are also forced to work overtime. "They also work ridicoulously for low prices earning a wage of 50p a day; and also use children for the fact that they can pay the children workers even less. Because of the popularity and major demand for Nike productions every day, that would only mean more massive number of orders and more workers; and more terrible tactics and misery. There was also a table showed about people who have to live up with less than 1 or 2 dollars per day. Even the Union has been set up, but the exploitation still continues.....