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Nike workers face verbal, physical and sexual abuse at factory in Sukabumi, Indonesia

I just arrived in Indonesia and although I have yet to meet with any Nike workers, I can report the following. Over the past year, Nike factory workers have faced verbal abuse, physical abuse, and sexual abuse; they have been forced to pay bribes for employment; the have been subject to serious health and safety [...]

Should Catholic Schools Wear Nike?

In the near fifteen years I have been working to end Nike’s sweatshop abuses and make Nike a fair trade company, I have watched with great pain as Nike has aggressively colonized Catholic schools across the nation. In fact, this is how my work started. Back in 1997, while an assistant coach as St. John’s [...]

Will You Join 249 Others and Give $10 a Month to Support Educating for Justice’s Teachers in Indonesia?

EFJ/Team Sweat: Will you give $10 a month to put three teachers to work for Educating for Justice in Indonesia? These teachers will head into villages and into Nike factory workers homes. They will be in the trenches with Nike workers on a year-round basis, helping them to develop the critical thinking skills and organizing [...]

Jim Keady: Why I Fight Nike

During the past few weeks I have been bombarded every day with messages from workers at Nike’s PT Nikomas factory in Serang, Indonesia. As I have posted about extensively, our recent victory of winning $1 million dollars in unpaid overtime at Nikomas was groundbreaking. However, the fallout has created a new round of issues for [...]

Start the Weekend with a Gift to EFJ

_ EFJ/Team Sweat: Happy Friday! As I write this, many of you are gearing up to enjoy the weekend. Why not start it off right with a contribution to EFJ/Team Sweat? If you are following my online postings, you can see that things are really moving fast with our work in Indonesia. I am getting [...]

The Jakarta Globe: ‘Score’ System Pushes Garment Workers to the Brink

by Anita Rachman | February 11, 2012 Yuliana can’t remember the last time she had a proper sit-down meal during her lunch break at the North Jakarta garment factory where she works. The 30-year-old mother of one said she simply doesn’t have the time, even though the workers are technically entitled to an hourlong break. [...]

AP Press: Asbury Park activist battles Nike over Indonesian factories

Jim Keady of Asbury Park listens to factory workers in Serang, Indonesia during a visit in January. 2012. / Courtesy of Jim Keady/Rivaldi Written by Dan Radel Staff Writer ASBURY PARK — Just over a decade ago, Jim Keady refused to wear Nike apparel and it cost him his job as an assistant coach on [...]

An Open Reponse to Nike’s Hannah Jones – Jim Keady breaks down Nike’s PR Spin on Wages

EFJ/Team Sweat, If you have attended a “Behind the Swoosh: Sweatshops and Social Justice” lecture, you have heard me ask you to write to Nike and request they disclose the wage rates at all their factories and also that they commit to pay their factory workers a living wage. When Nike writes you back (if [...]

The Jakarta Globe: Nike Workers Still Waiting for Back Pay From Nikomas

Anita Rachman & Ulma Haryanto | February 06, 2012 More than 4,400 workers in a Serang, Banten, factory that manufactures products for Nike should by now have received up to two years’ worth of overtime pay previously denied to them. But according to Djoko Haryono from the National Workers Union (SPN), which oversees the agreement [...]

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Educating for Justice is fighting for living wages and fair working conditions for Nike's factory workers in Indonesia. Some people ask, "Why do you just focus on Nike in Indonesia? Don't other companies use sweatshops? Doesn't this happen in other countries?" Yes, other companies use sweatshops and yes, it happens in other countries. But we focus on one company, in one country. Nike has 43 factories and more than 160,000 workers in Indonesia alone. We have a staff of four - one in the USA and three in Indonesia - and a budget of $80,000 a year to organize those workers and fight against the public relations lies of the $20 billion dollar Nike empire. Clearly, we have our hands full. But you can be sure, when we win in Indonesia - and we will win - we will get after Nike's factories in China, then Vietnam, then India and beyond. When we are finished, we will have transformed one of the largest, most powerful companies in history. That's our mission and we are sticking to it.

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