"Nike is criticized for using sweatshops in countries like Indonesia and Mexico. The company has been subject to much critical coverage of the often poor working conditions and the exploitativeness of the cheap overseas labor." answers.com 1. Should Nike be held responsible for working conditions in foreign factories that it does not own‚ but where sub-contractors make product for Nike? Yes‚ but I do not believe that the firm is 100% responsible since it is the sub-contractors who operate
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day. Today‚ I hope to spread awareness of the problem that affects us all. These workers are not paid enough to meet their basic needs. For example‚ sweatshop workers earn as little as ½ to ¼ of what they need for basic nutrition‚ shelter‚ energy‚ clothing‚ education‚ and transportation. If major corporations were to double the salary of sweatshop workers‚ they would merely need to increase the consumer cost of an item by only 1.8 percent. Note that these workers are forced to work 14-hour days
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The International Labour Organization The International Labour Organization (ILO) is devoted to advancing opportunities for women and men to obtain decent and productive work in conditions of freedom‚ equity‚ security and human dignity. Its main aims are to promote rights at work‚ encourage decent employment opportunities‚ enhance social protection and strengthen dialogue in handling work-related issues. In promoting social justice and internationally recognized human and labour rights‚ the organization
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Why did Labour win the 1945 election? There was a lack of a strong opposition. The liberal party was weak and not cohesive‚ the Conservatives complacent and tainted by memories of their failings during the 1930’s. They spent less on 1945 election and focused too much of their campaign on the dominant personality of Churchill instead of the popular reformist ministers such as Butler. Many voters associated Churchill with the nation as a whole and not with the Conservative Party or as only a wartime
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pointed out the negatives of sweatshop conditions of the industrialization era. It emphasized the worst part of its times the low wages‚ long hours‚ and unsanitary working conditions were what symbolized what sweatshops were all about. These conditions were appalling‚ and no person should ever be made to work in these conditions. Sweatshops were originally set up to produce a large quantity of mostly clothing items‚ with cheap labor wages for its workers. Sweatshops more often than not were cramped
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their employees. To be able to keep the prices low Wal Mart is no stranger to using foreign labor. "The sweatshop conditions in which thousands of employees of Wal-Mart ’s suppliers routinely work‚ and the depressive effect that Wal-Mart has on working-class living standards here in the United States‚ are receiving increasing scrutiny"(1) No where in the US can you own a sweatshop. The sweatshop labor is cheap to run and is one way that they can keep the price down. "The truth is that Wal-Mart has
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United Arab of Emirates came exports products from a store in the U.S. and paid the works 105‚623 (equal to the percentage raise Nike is paying in Indonesia)‚ Americans would be grateful. 4. Could Nike have handled the negative publicity over sweatshops better? What might it have done differently‚ not just from a public
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Walmart Supply Chain Controversy August 29‚ 2005 Hurricane Katrina hit the Louisiana coast and Wal-Mart was one of the main sources of aid of this disaster. Their efforts included personally helping their associates with the disaster relief‚ setting up and re-opening he affected stores as soon as possible‚ and even worked hand in hand with government relief agencies. Their trucks were the first to arrive with emergency relief supplies. This was a great act that helped Wal-Mart in the short and long
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Describing New Labour as a ‘warmed up’ version of Thatcherism is a paradoxical statement in that it contains both a great deal of truth and falsehood. It is certainly true that New Labour accepted‚ and in some cases developed‚ Thatcherite ideals - namely deregulation of the economy‚ privatisation and limiting the powers of trade unions. It is also true that the New Labour style of government was deeply Thatcher-esk in its reliance on big business/media support‚ continuing the ‘presidential’ system
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Case Questions: 1. How is the company’s and public’s view of “what makes IKEA who it is” related to this supply chain controversy? Specifically‚ how should Marianne Barner respond to the invitation for IKEA to have a representative appear on the upcoming broadcast of the German video program? I think the public view of IKEA related to this supply chain controversy is negative‚ because the German produced program planned to take a confrontation and aggressive approach aimed directly at IKEA and
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