Corporate Iresponsibility_NIKE (OWNERS OF CONVERSE)

             With Nike net worth estimate at nearly 9.6 billion (in 2009) it's mind bottling why the hell they can't pay decent wages.With the competitive markets over seas like many companies Nike brought originally American jobs over seas in third world countries such as Pakistan, Vietnam, China, Indonesia ,Bangladesh and India . Nike sure took things to a brand new level of low.No longer fooling the public with majority of their equipments being made in developing countries.Developing countries having cheaper wages making it easy for Nike to get away with illegal practices allowing the sporting good giant to avoid human rights appeals and union movements.        

             Labor laws concerning overtime are constantly being violated.The different wages for night shits and Sundays go constantly ignored. They're paying wages lower than minimum wage making it hard to provide their selves with basic needs like food,water and shelter(maybe shelter should be replaced with clothes they pretty much live in the sweat shop anyway) and not to forget the caring of their families.More than 50% of the world soccer balls are made in Pakistan produced by productions involved in child labor.Nike seeing the horrible living condition didn't extend a helping hand but instead thought to $$$$profit$$$$. .Using 200 kids in their production line making soccer balls some children as young as 4 & 5 yrs old earning 60¢ a day.Average Pakistanis lives off of $5 a day excluding taking care of family(a traditional Pakistanis family can range up to 10 children).

             In Indonesia 12 year old girls was forced to work in sweat shops for 70 hours making Nike shoes in unhealthy plants.Thank god labor organizers in Indonesia have been put behind bars.In Vietnam Supervisors in a plant beat workers paid 20¢ per hour denying them the right to leave their work post .In 1996 many workers were forced to work more than 200 hours of overtime in a one year period. Worsening in 1997 many of their workers had approached 200 hours overtime in a two month period.Higher demand of products produce by kids in child labor +higher birth rate +increasing sweat shops = discouraging education and kids being bought and sold as slaves.

          Amazed and disgusted with the findings just makes me curious as to how many companies in total are going about running their business like this.And how do they sleep at night doing this.They know better to pull a mess like that in the United States but its horrible they take advantage of these developing countries.