Nike Sweatshops
I think that Nike sweatshops are horrible! How can we, in a chathasism union, be convicted of enslaving women and children in a nike factory? How can someone live on a $1.25 minimum wage and not die? We are only human, this is wrong in so many ways. You have to work on extra hours to be able to support your family, or barely yourself. The kids sometimes can't even see their parents because they are working extra hours.The children don't even go to school. I just saw this kid that was smoking, and apparently he doesn't know how much effect it has on him that he can be taking away minutes and minutes away from his life. Also, the Nike factory dumps millions of that shoe rubber thing that they put on the bottom of your shoe, it's not just toxic for the people that work in the factory, but also toxic for the citizens of the city, including the children. Also, that's not it, they burn it to not have so much waste in their city. But what they don't know is that it also POLLUTES the environment, and that's what happens when you don't go to school.
The Nike issue continued...
Micheal More comes to Phil Knight with two tickets for both of them. He wanted to fight and keep on making excuses to not go and he just didn't want to confront the problem. So when Micheal said if he got people to say that they wanted a job in the Nike business, then he would see to it that he would think about making a Nike industry in Flint, Michigan. But when Micheal did, Phil still said no. So in the end, Micheal proposed that if he donated 10,000 dollars, then he would mach it. And only to that he agreed, not even to donate to schools without "matching" anything.
So now this guy went to Indonesia to see how much they needed to spend on daily necessities on a minimum wage. And he did and he found out that one regular plate of rice, vegetables, and chicken, all costs 9,000 rupiah and for a tea, it costs 2,000 rupiah. For soap, 1,000 rupiah. For shampoo, it's 2,000 rupiah. The rent was 250,000 rupiah (i think).
Then it showed that when that Phil Knight guy went on this show, not in person though, by web cam, and he said that he absolutely believes that they are living a good minimum wage and they can pay all there expenses and still have enough money to buy extra.
Human Trafficking
They are in debt. Their passports are take away from them. And now they are trapped. Everything is right next to each other. First there is their beds, then their "tub" where 100's of men bathe. Then there is the toilet which is right by where they make food. It stinks very bad. There housing is unacceptable. They have hired lawyers to hopefully win the case to give them their passports back. The impact on these workers is priceless. Now that supposedly the Nike corporation "knows" about it, they wanna say that they didn't know anything about it and that now they see what has been happening. But they knew all along what was happening, they just didn't want to do anything about it because it's not their problem. When they are all the way on the other side of the world, and you have the government, the police, and justice... on your side, you don't care to think about what people there are going through. Oh-h no but when it's right in your face, then you want to do something about it. When your there and experiencing it and it's there in your everyday life and you can't do anything about it, then you want to help!
The Nike issue continued...
Micheal More comes to Phil Knight with two tickets for both of them. He wanted to fight and keep on making excuses to not go and he just didn't want to confront the problem. So when Micheal said if he got people to say that they wanted a job in the Nike business, then he would see to it that he would think about making a Nike industry in Flint, Michigan. But when Micheal did, Phil still said no. So in the end, Micheal proposed that if he donated 10,000 dollars, then he would mach it. And only to that he agreed, not even to donate to schools without "matching" anything.
So now this guy went to Indonesia to see how much they needed to spend on daily necessities on a minimum wage. And he did and he found out that one regular plate of rice, vegetables, and chicken, all costs 9,000 rupiah and for a tea, it costs 2,000 rupiah. For soap, 1,000 rupiah. For shampoo, it's 2,000 rupiah. The rent was 250,000 rupiah (i think).
Then it showed that when that Phil Knight guy went on this show, not in person though, by web cam, and he said that he absolutely believes that they are living a good minimum wage and they can pay all there expenses and still have enough money to buy extra.
Human Trafficking
They are in debt. Their passports are take away from them. And now they are trapped. Everything is right next to each other. First there is their beds, then their "tub" where 100's of men bathe. Then there is the toilet which is right by where they make food. It stinks very bad. There housing is unacceptable. They have hired lawyers to hopefully win the case to give them their passports back. The impact on these workers is priceless. Now that supposedly the Nike corporation "knows" about it, they wanna say that they didn't know anything about it and that now they see what has been happening. But they knew all along what was happening, they just didn't want to do anything about it because it's not their problem. When they are all the way on the other side of the world, and you have the government, the police, and justice... on your side, you don't care to think about what people there are going through. Oh-h no but when it's right in your face, then you want to do something about it. When your there and experiencing it and it's there in your everyday life and you can't do anything about it, then you want to help!
