Wednesday, September 05, 2018

Who made your shoes?



In Breitbart, John Binder reports,
Last year, alone, Nike laid off about 1,400 American workers in its headquarters town of Beaverton, Oregon.

...In 2015, a screen printing factory in Clarence, New York used by Nike to make T-shirts that once employed nearly 170 Americans announced it was closing up shop and sending the jobs to low wage Honduras. The average minimum wage worker in Honduras earns less than $8,000 a year.

For more than three and half decades, Nike has employed most of its workforce in low wage Vietnam and China, rather than the United States. For example, as of this year, Nike has 46 percent of its products produced in Vietnam, where the year minimum wage is close to $1,000. About 27 percent of its products are made in China, where the average worker earns less than $5,000 a year.
Read more here.

In a related article here, Lebron James said,
“I stand with Nike, all day, every day.”

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