Great news for U.S. liberals who oppose Nike's third world sweatshops!

ananova.com ^ | 20th August 2002

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http://www.ananova.com/business/story/sm_653774.html

Nike workers protest against cutbacks

Thousands of Indonesian Nike workers have marched on the US embassy in Jakarta to protest against planned production cuts.

Workers at Nike-contracted factories expect the cutback could cost 7,000 jobs.

Around 4,000 workers carried placards and demanded that Nike compensate laid-off workers.

Rustam Aksam, president of the Indonesian Textile, Garment and Leather Worker's Union, says: "Nike has no social responsibility. They are just exploiting the workers, getting their profit and then leaving."

Nike has confirmed it will terminate a contract with Doson Indonesia in November.

But the company says it will continue to work with 47 other factories which employ 123,000 workers.

It has offered Doson workers continued medical care, loans and training.

But it has called on Doson Indonesia to provide other compensation.

Jeff DuMont, general manager of Nike Indonesia, says: "We understand the concerns of Doson Indonesia workers and we have emphasised to the management of Doson Indonesia our expectation that they meet all their obligations to the employees in the event that lay-offs occur."

Story filed: 09:50 Tuesday 20th August 2002

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Liberals in the U.S. are always talking about how Nike's third world sweatshops are bad for the people who work in them, so I thought these U.S. liberals would be happy to learn that 7,000 of the people who work in Nike's third world sweatshops are about to lose their jobs.

[Russell Scott]

Another pro-homosexual company on its way to economic ruin. And Tiger Wood and Michael Jordan can't stop Nike from reaping what they sowed.

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From your lips to God's ears.

[Iscool]

But the company says it will continue to work with 47 other factories which employ 123,000 workers.

Hmmm...That's a lot of plant managers, engineers, supervisors, skilled trades, general labor and probably thousands of 2nd tier supplier positions that the US has given to China...

[driftless]

Yes , it is a good thing that these people no longer have jobs that while feeding them, did not rival the same conditions as western countries. It is good that these people may now go hungry because they have no jobs (ha, ha). I'll bet if the leftist nitwits who are railing against Nike did so in front of the people they're purporting to help, the same people would probably kill them and eat them. Another joke, but I doubt these people would have any sympathy for the dopes who literally take the bread out of their mouths.

Actually it is my firm belief that many leftists want these people to starve as long as they refuse to go Marxist. One "tenderhearted" Green is already on record for saying that the deaths of people in mosquito-ridden third-world countries is a good thing...too many of the nasty over-breeding wogs you know.

[MadIvan]

Another pro-homosexual company on its way to economic ruin. And Tiger Wood and Michael Jordan can't stop Nike from reaping what they sowed.

Here is a question - partially due to the fact that I am due to buy another pair of sneakers soon - what shoe manufacturers are not outrageously left wing?

Oh and I hate the shoes with those plastic bubbles in the soles.

Regards, Ivan