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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.
In 2013, The New York Times published a sort of greatest-hits of Li & Fung violations: 29 workers killed in a fire in Bangladesh in 2010; at least two workers killed in a “stampede,” also in Bangladesh, in 2011; 280 workers fainting at a facility in Cambodia due to malnourishment and air contamination; a dozen workers fired in Indonesia ...
In September 2018, Nike and Keady were in the news again over a controversial ad campaign with Colin Kaepernick, famed football player and social justice protester. Keady was asked to voice his views regarding Nike's stance on social justice in the United States while the company has a history of social justice controversies globally.
Racial and cultural issues. Since the late 1990s, the NBA has been criticized for embracing hip hop culture. [ 1] While some observers have argued that this criticism has more to do with race than hip hop itself, [ 2] it is a fact that the league is connected to hip hop culture. Rappers Nelly and Jay-Z had ownership stakes in NBA teams (the ...
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 ...
"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 ...
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 ...
The Nike Vaporfly first came out in 2017 and their popularity, along with its performance, prompted a new series of running shoes. [6] [7] The Vaporfly series has a new technological composition that has revolutionized long-distance running since studies have shown that these shoes can improve run times up to 4.2%. [6]