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Your are assign to present the topic in the class about unethical business practice. Write the presentation article (how you present this to you class / the way you present this) about unethical business practices by Nike based one the points given below. Merge all the points and make it clear presentation (speech).
Unethical Business Practices (Human Rights)
Low wages
In Nike's contract factories in Vietnam, workers are paid as little as $0.56 per hour. This is far below Vietnam's minimum wage of $3.60 per hour and does not provide workers with enough to live on.
In 1998, a group of workers in Nike's contract factory in Vietnam went on strike to protest their low wages. The workers were only being paid $0.30 per hour, which was below Vietnam's minimum wage of $0.58 per hour. As a result of the strike, Nike was forced to raise wages at the factory. However, even after the wage increase, workers were still only being paid $0.56 per hour, which is far below Vietnam's minimum wage and does not provide workers with a living wage.
In 1998, chinese workers protest about low wages and dangerous working conditions.
Indonesia workers earn $2.46 a day, while chinese workers earn $1.75 a day
many of the Cambodian employees who produce Nike products make less than one dollar per day
Child Labour
Nike has been accused of using child labor in the production of its soccer balls and shoes for Nike in Pakistan. While Pakistan has laws against child labor, the government has taken very little action to terminate it.
The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan notice about 24 ago in 1990 that more than 11 million of kids were working having less than 10 years.
In Jun 1996, Life magazine published a story that included a photograph of a 12 years old Tariq stitching footballs that carried the Nike logo. Which he would spend most of a day stitching together for the grand sum of 60 cents.
Twelve-year-old girls work in Indonesian sweatshops 70 hours a week making Nikes in unhealthy plants that reek of glue.
61 % of labor in Nike industry is child labor and children are often paid as little as just $10 for 65 hours work week. (By Supporting Nike You Are Supporting Child Labor -Lacey Battles)
According to the BBC news, several child labours were exploited, they work approximately 16 hours every day without having a rest.
Sweat shop
Sweatshops are factory's / workshops that are under harsh conditions, work for long hours and are paid minimal wager.
In 1991, American labor activist Jeffrey Ballinger published a report on Nike's factory practices in Indonesia, exposing a scandal: below-minimum wages, child labor and appalling conditions likened to a sweatshop - a factory or workshop where employees work long hours for low money in conditions that are hazardous to health
US College student Jim Keady also delved into Nike's inhumane production practices in the 90s, and in his film Behind the Swoosh exposed how workers, who were paid $US1.25 per day, were forced to live in slums near open sewers, and shared toilets and bathwater with multiple families.
Allegations of physical and verbal abuse in sweatshops.
50% of factories, limited bathroom and water usage (Asian and Indonesian)
Underpaid, unfair wage in factories, excessive overtime and non-regulated hours
Vietnam: 15 women are beat on head and neck (with a Nike shoe) by a supervisor, for "poor sewing"2 are hospitalized. 970 workers go on strike in protest. Nike CEO Philip Knight lies to shareholders that only 1 worker was hit, on the arm.
Indonesia/Vietnam: people commonly faint from exhaustion, heat, fumes, and poor nutrition, some die w/o medical attention after collapsing on the job, a typical 20-hrs in a day factory with 6000 workers has only one doctor, for 2 hrs in a day, and people are fired immediately if they take sick leave.
Nike subjects' workers (90% young women and girls) to criminally dangerous, brutal sweatshops. Chemicals causing liver, kidney and brain damage are at 177 times the legal limit, and 77% of workers suffer respiratory problems most exposed workers are given neither protective gear nor the truth.
As punishment for not wearing regulation (Nike) shoes to work, workers were forced to run laps in the 100-degree heat, sometimes causing fainting.
Reports that 125 assembly - line workers were lined up and slapped with the sole of a Nike sneaker. Workers were allegedly forced to lick the factory floor for misdemeanors
Front Page of New York Times: Nike Audit Report - Reported factory conditions - More than half of the employees do not wear chemical protective equipment in hazardous places. Thousands of women (most under 25) work 10 or 11 hours a day, 6 days a week in excessive heat and polluted air for slightly over $10 a week.
Gender Discrimination
As per a report in The Times, many female workers have shared their concerns with human resource managers for years about humiliating treatment and sexual harassment. "They claimed that male supervisors who called them by vulgar names and discussed their bodies. One of them even threw his keys at a subordinate and used foul language with her," said a complainant. The women also marked out that their complaints to human resources was left unheard and didn't bring any change in the workplace.
As per a report in CNBC,
- Nike is accused of "intentionally and willfully discriminated against [women] with respect to pay, promotions, and conditions of employment" in new lawsuit.
- The lawsuit filed accuses Nike of systematically discriminating against women and fostering a hostile workplace that tolerated or ignored sexual assault.