a little insight into the kind of company and values Nike's virtue signaling ass is all about. as for Google they are Satan's lapdog.
Nike has contracted with more than 700 shops around the world and has offices located in 45 countries outside the United States.
[85] Most of the factories are located in Asia, including Indonesia, China, Taiwan, India,
[86] Thailand, Vietnam, Pakistan, Philippines, and Malaysia.
[87] Nike is hesitant to disclose information about the contract companies it works with. However, due to harsh criticism from some organizations like
CorpWatch, Nike has disclosed information about its contract factories in its Corporate Governance Report.
Sweatshops
Main article:
Nike sweatshops
Nike has been criticized for contracting with factories (known as
Nike sweatshops) in countries such as
China,
Vietnam,
Indonesia and
Mexico. Vietnam Labor Watch, an activist group, has documented that factories contracted by Nike have
violated minimum wage and overtime
laws in Vietnam as late as 1996, although Nike claims that this practice has been stopped.
[88] The company has been subject to much critical coverage of the often poor working conditions and
exploitation of cheap overseas labor employed in the
free trade zones where their goods are typically manufactured. Sources for this criticism include
Naomi Klein's book
No Logo and
Michael Moore documentaries.
Campaigns have been taken up by many colleges and universities, especially
anti-globalisation groups, as well as several
anti-sweatshop groups such as the United Students Against Sweatshops.
[89]
As of July 2011, Nike stated that two-thirds of its factories producing Converse products still do not meet the company's standards for worker treatment. A July 2011
Associated Press article stated that employees at the company's plants in
Indonesia reported constant abuse from supervisors.
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Child labor allegations
During the 1990s, Nike faced criticism for the use of
child labor in
Cambodia and
Pakistan in factories it contracted to manufacture soccer balls. Although Nike took action to curb or at least reduce the practice, they continue to contract their production to companies that operate in areas where inadequate regulation and monitoring make it hard to ensure that child labor is not being used.
[91]
In 2001, a BBC documentary uncovered occurrences of child labor and poor working conditions in a Cambodian factory used by Nike.
[92] The documentary focused on six girls, who all worked seven days a week, often 16 hours a day.
Strike in China factory
In April 2014, one of the biggest strikes in mainland China took place at the
Yue Yuen Industrial Holdings Dongguan shoe factory, producing amongst others for Nike. Yue Yuen did underpay an employee by 250 yuan (40.82 US Dollars) per month. The average salary at Yue Yuen is 3000 yuan per month. The factory employs 70,000 people. This practice was in place for nearly 20 years.
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Paradise Papers
Main article:
Paradise Papers
On 5 November 2017, the
Paradise Papers, a set of confidential
electronic documents relating to
offshore investment, revealed that Nike is among the corporations that used
offshore companies to avoid taxes.
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Appleby documents detail how Nike boosted its after-tax profits by, among other maneuvers, transferring ownership of its Swoosh trademark to a Bermudan subsidiary, Nike International Ltd. This transfer allowed the subsidiary to charge royalties to its European headquarters in
Hilversum,
Netherlands, effectively converting taxable company
profits to an account payable in
tax-free Bermuda.
[99] Although the subsidiary was effectively run by executives at Nike's main offices in
Beaverton, Oregon—to the point where a duplicate of the Bermudan company's seal was needed—for tax purposes the subsidiary was treated as Bermuda. Its profits were not declared in Europe and came to light only because of a mostly unrelated case in US Tax Court, where papers filed by Nike briefly mention royalties in 2010, 2011 and 2012 totaling $3.86 billion.
[99] Under an arrangement with Dutch authorities, the tax break was to expire in 2014, so another reorganization transferred the intellectual property from the Bermudan company to a Dutch
commanditaire vennootschap or limited partnership, Nike Innovate CV. Dutch law treats income earned by a CV as if it had been earned by the principals, who owe no tax in the Netherlands if they do not reside there.
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