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‘Injury to One is Injury to All’: Why Oregon Educators and Asian Garment Workers Are Fighting Nike Together

WWD·Jasmin Malik Chua·about 1 month ago
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For decades, Nike told the world to “just do it.” Now, Oregon educators and Asian garment workers say they’re just done. If the affinity between the two groups—backed by the Asia Floor Wage Alliance , Global Labor Justice , the Portland Association of Teachers and Jobs With Justice—isn’t obvious, it’s only at first glance. Both charge the sportswear Goliath with fueling a “race to the bottom” by cutting tax deals that siphon funds from public education and underpaying the people who make its sneakers and clothes. Their “Just Sign It” campaign, launched Friday, calls on Nike to sign a legally binding fair tax and wage agreement that funds Oregon’s schools and pays a living wage to workers across its supply chains in Cambodia, India, Indonesia, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. Instead of bossing others around, they say, it’s time to heed the predominantly female workers who churn out its merchandise and the working Oregonians who have subsidized its profits.…

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