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Inside the Nike lawsuit: Allegations of groping, nude photos, ignored complaints
Portland Biz Journal ^ | 8/10/18 | Matthew Kish

Posted on 09/04/2018 4:22:35 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper

A class action lawsuit filed against Nike Inc. late Thursday gives the fullest picture yet of the toxic workplace behavior...

.... class action status, alleges "women's careers (at Nike) are blunted because they are marginalized and passed over for promotions....

....Complaints about Nike's culture were first reported in March by the Wall Street Journal after a group of female executives complained to CEO Mark Parker. The New York Times and The Oregonian subsequently reported on complaints about Nike's culture...

.... a male Nike executive sent inappropriate sexual messages and nude photographs of himself to one of the plaintiffs, Sara Johnston, after a boozy Nike party in December 2015...

...same male executive "pushed a female co-worker against a wall and reached his hand up her skirt" at the same December 2015 party.

.....plaintiff Kelly Cahill, who also filed an earlier sexual discrimination complaint again Nike with the state, claims a former Nike executive referred to women as "dykes" on several occasions and regularly berated female employees.

Cahill claims she complained to human resources four times, but her complaints did not result in "meaningful" action.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Oregon
KEYWORDS: colin; colinkaepernick; cophater; cya; formernflqb; nfl; nike
Now we see why Nike chose to publicize the cop hater Colin. They wanted to rally support before news of this lawsuit got a lot of attention.

I guess Nike loves to harass women. Me Too movement, where are you?

1 posted on 09/04/2018 4:22:35 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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To: SoFloFreeper

Nike is a missle used in the 50s to defend our cities from soviet communist bombers.

Only Nike I know. This old fart wears Rockport Walkers


2 posted on 09/04/2018 4:34:00 AM PDT by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you. O)
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To: SoFloFreeper
...male executive "pushed a female co-worker against a wall and reached his hand up her skirt"

"C'mon, baby! Just do it. Even if it means sacrificing everything," he said.

3 posted on 09/04/2018 4:39:19 AM PDT by niteowl77
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To: SoFloFreeper

Whom does this apply to, “Believe in something. Even if it means sacrificing everything”.


4 posted on 09/04/2018 4:40:44 AM PDT by Lockbox
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To: Lockbox

Nike is sacrificing everything to preserve an archaic mindset. Goodbye to cheap child labor in some Asian country, and distribution of overpriced sports equipment goods in this country.

Demand for these goods is a highly fungible commercial enterprise. It can be satisfied from any number of other sources.


5 posted on 09/04/2018 4:56:03 AM PDT by alloysteel ("No" is a complete sentence. On so many levels.)
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To: SoFloFreeper

Among the many things I hope to never see is Colin Kapernick in the raw.


6 posted on 09/04/2018 4:59:22 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (I've Never Owned Slaves...You've Never Picked Cotton.End Of "Discussion".)
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To: SoFloFreeper

Seems to me that the contempt top Nike executives have for women would probably make Colin feel right at home.


7 posted on 09/04/2018 5:02:13 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (I've Never Owned Slaves...You've Never Picked Cotton.End Of "Discussion".)
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To: SoFloFreeper

So is the whole kapernic thing all about readjusting their customer base to one who won’t care about something like this?


8 posted on 09/04/2018 5:04:20 AM PDT by Pollard (If you don't understand what I typed, you haven't read the classics.)
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To: Gay State Conservative
Seems to me that the contempt top Nike executives have for women would probably make Colin feel right at home.

No, Colin dances to the tune his woman plays. He'd probably be playing football somewhere if she hadn't gotten him all "woke".

9 posted on 09/04/2018 5:14:07 AM PDT by PAR35
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To: niteowl77

so what’s his name?


10 posted on 09/04/2018 5:20:48 AM PDT by ronniesgal ( I wonder what his FR handle is??)
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To: PAR35
No, Colin dances to the tune his woman plays. He'd probably be playing football somewhere if she hadn't gotten him all "woke".

One thing you might have missed...his new squeeze is a moslem.And having done some traveling in the Middle East I've see,up close,how obedient,how submissive,moslem women are to their husbands,and fathers,and uncles,and brothers,and sons,and grandsons.

I'd bet everything I own that his squeeze is accustomed to as much abuse and domination by men than is any other moslem woman.

11 posted on 09/04/2018 5:27:42 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (I've Never Owned Slaves...You've Never Picked Cotton.End Of "Discussion".)
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Well Hello Nike....welcome to Me Too....and you double down on sleaze by hiring a USA hating underprivileged semiblack millionaire...


12 posted on 09/04/2018 6:25:22 AM PDT by TnTnTn
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To: SoFloFreeper

BTTT

THIS is why the ad: To distract from the lawsuit against Nike executives for sexual assault against their female employees.


13 posted on 09/04/2018 6:42:00 AM PDT by CodeToad ( Hating on Trump is hating on me and America!)
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To: SoFloFreeper

Look...a squirrel!


14 posted on 09/04/2018 6:47:32 AM PDT by Eagles6
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Now we see why Nike chose to publicize the cop hater Colin. They wanted to rally support before news of this lawsuit got a lot of attention.
Well said, SoFloFreeper.
BTW, Trump's kicking CK's and Nike's asses, which also happens to be where their heads are.
sidebars / backstory:

15 posted on 09/04/2018 3:46:27 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
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