Nike Factory Workers Research Paper

Nike factory workers are abused and aren’t paid enough to meet simple life necesities and are doing nothing to change the problem.Nike moved most of their production from Beaverton,Oregon to overseas simply because of the fact that they can get away with treating their working unfair(Stanford.edu1). Men and Women that work in Indonesia are paid 5$ a day and aren’t even able to by food for their family on a day to day basis. In an article it shows that the monthly wage in South africa for some 660 workers is $ 31.43(Bizjournal 1). This amount of money is simply not enough for anybody to live off of in a month.. Verbal and physical abuse is another problem and in China women were kicked,slapped and verbally abused(daily mail). So If we don’t bring the problem to Nike and the rest of the Nike consumers the problem of unfair wages and abuse will still be prevalent in Nike factories all over the world. Outsourcing happens because companies can get away with more things such as wages.This is happens everywhere in the United States simply due to the fact they can rip their workers off.In California alone 560,000 jobs were taken from the

For instance in a article written by daily mail “One worker at the Taiwanese-operated Pou Chen plant in Sukabumi said she was kicked by a supervisor last year after making a mistake while cutting rubber for soles.” In the article it says that nike knew about what was going on and said that there was little they could do to stop it.There is a myriad amount of articles that prove that Nike knows what’s going on in their factories.For instance, Nike shoe factories in indonesia supervisors throw shoes and call the worker pigs and Nike admits that they knew what was going on (huffington post 1). Nike is constantly reminded of the abuse that their workers have to work with,yet they let the verbal and physical abuse