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Team Sweat is "an international coalition of consumers, investors, and workers committed to ending the injustices in Nike’s sweatshops around the world" founded in 2000 by Jim Keady. While Keady was researching Nike at St. John’s University, the school signed a $3.5 million deal with Nike, forcing all athletes and coaches to endorse Nike.
Nike Vaporfly and Tokyo 2020 Olympics controversy. In 2017, Nike released the Nike Zoom Vaporfly Elite shoe, [ 1] which was advertised as "ultra-lightweight, soft and capable of providing up to 85-percent energy return." These "super shoes" became the focus of claims that they were a form of technology doping and that they provided athletes an ...
In late April 2024, the Major League Baseball Players Association sent a memo to players stating that the uniforms would be overhauled, at the latest by the start of the 2025 season, hoping to rectify many of the complaints aimed at Nike's Vapor Premier template. These included a return to the larger name lettering, fixing the mismatched shades ...
"Naadier Riles, the founder of Global Heartbreak, is not an independent creator when it comes to footwear—he is a bootlegger," is the opening line of a lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court ...
April 8, 2023 at 10:35 AM. Nike has responded to growing pushback from female athletes who have condemned the company for using transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney in an advertisement featuring ...
The shoes contain three phrases including "Hypocrite Nike" and "Made with slave labor." In a tweet, Kanter said he would buy a plane ticket for Knight so the two could take a closer look at the ...
Controversies surrounding Uber. Uber, officially Uber Technologies Inc., has been the subject of controversies. Like other ridesharing companies, the company classifies its drivers as gig workers / independent contractors. This has become the subject of legal action in several jurisdictions. The company has disrupted taxicab businesses and ...
Nike's overall positive performance involved strong results from its digital and direct-to-consumer (DTC) businesses: The company's direct sales were $4.6 billion, up 15% from a reported basis and ...