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Nike, long in the vanguard of U.S. companies producing in Asia, is now leading Corporate America's charge into Vietnam. Twenty-five thousand young Vietnamese workers currently churn out a million pairs of Nikes every month. The lure of Vietnam is obvious. The country's minimum wage is $42 a month. At that rate, labor for a pair of basket ball shoes which retail for $149.50 costs Nike $1.50, 1 per cent of the retail price. Vietnamese newspapers report that Nike contractors even cheat many workers out of the paltry minimum wage. Nike workers in Vietnam are also subject to other labor rights violations. The Vietnamese press contain frequent allegations of verbal, physical and sexual abuse of workers, charges echoed by Thuyen Nguyen of the New York City based Vietnam Labor Watch. Nguyen also says that Nike contractors require overtime work far in excess of permissible limits. Vietnam is not Indonesia or China, however, and Nike has found itself more vulnerable to criticism in Vietnam. Unlike China and Indonesia-which together account for about 70 percent of Nike's shoe production-Vietnam has a vocal immigrant community in North America which stays in touch with developments back home. Vietnamese leaders appear concerned about safeguarding some vestige of the nation's socialist principles in the face of a flood of foreign investment. That lingering socialist legacy distinguishes the country from both China, where exploitation of workers in foreign shoe companies is rife and the regime does not permit critical news reports, and Indonesia, which years ago banned newspapers from reporting on the harsh conditions and minimum wage violations at sports shoe-producing factories. Tour of duty With the spotlight suddenly turned on its Vietnamese operations, and increasingly shining on its Indonesian factories, Nike has been caught flat footed. Last August, the company had to hurriedly dispatch two outside directors for a tour of production facilities in Indonesia and Vietnam just weeks before the company's annual shareholder meeting. The tour was prompted by a resolution filed by the General Board of Pensions of the United Methodist Church calling on the company to address the abusive practices of its con tractors. Upon her return, Jill Ker Conway, a Nike director, best selling author and visiting professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, told shareholders at the annual meeting that the young Indonesian and Vietnamese workers were treated fairly. She said Nike contractors provide adequate compensation, safe working conditions and health care that is superior to what the workers received in the villages that most of them have recently left. Conway countered reports that Nike contractors pay workers less than the monthly minimum wage of $65 a month in Indonesia and a third less in Vietnam. "I was informed of minimum wage regulations by Nike" and contractors' adherence to them, Conway told the shareholders. When told about wage violations uncovered by CBS just days before, Conway expressed confidence in Nike's expatriate staff. Since the shareholders' meeting, further reports have alleged ongoing wage violations by Nike contractors. In January 1997, the Independent Sports Shoes Monitoring Network, a collection of respected Indonesian non-governmental organizations, charged that cheating continues despite the presence of Nike-hired "monitors" from the accounting firm Ernst and Young. In an interview with Multinational Monitor, Conway expressed utmost confidence in her powers of observation- even though Nike organized her tour and provided translators in both countries and she did not contact any of the non-governmental organizations in Indonesia which have been critical of labor practices in the Nike factories for years. The workers she chatted with in factories, lunch rooms and dormitories "did not appear to be intimidated," Conway says. Workers do want a reduction in overtime, she acknowledges, though she did not mention this criticism to share holders. Conway stands by her statement to shareholders that the length of annual leave for the Indonesian workers making Nike shoes is more than 30 days, though dozens of workers interviewed in November, two months after her visit, said the actual amount is 10 days. The second outside director to tour Nike's Asian facilities, Georgetown University basketball coach John Thompson, told shareholders that he was "far more satisfied with my own conscience" after the visit. He expressed relief that he observed no one being "overly abused." He also said, "I did not see the kinds of things that I had heard about." What Conway and Thompson did not uncover was widely reported in the Vietnamese press, starting in April 1996. Vietnamese news accounts reported that a Nike contractor's Korean supervisor was found guilty of beating 15 Vietnamese about the head with a shoe "upper," and that another Korean supervisor was charged with sexual molestation. Nike Chief Executive Officer Phil Knight did mention these incidents at the shareholder meeting. Knight told the shareholders that "one Vietnamese worker was hit "on the arm." About the sexual molestation case, Knight said, "There was perhaps some misappropriate behavior. And then he touched a part he should not have." But the Vietnamese news accounts reveal that the incidents Knight belittled were serious. In the sexual molestation case, according to the news reports, factory managers tried to buy the young women's silence, and the Korean manager fled to Seoul after charges were filed against him. Lacking independent unions and meaningful corporate codes of conduct to discipline management, some workers for Nike contractors are turning to the courts, with mixed results. A Vietnamese court recently found the Korean supervisor guilty of beating workers, and extradition may be sought for the sexual molester who fled. In Indonesia, 24 discharged Nike workers are challenging the legality of their dismissal before the country's Supreme Court. The Indonesian workers face a long wait, according to their lawyer, Apong Herlina. The Supreme Court's docket is crowded with hundreds of cases, and "only 26 decisions were issued last year," Herlina says. The case "could be settled if Nike took it up with their contractor," says Herlina, but this seems unlikely. Last summer, Nike refused even to see one of the dismissed workers when she visited the company's headquarters in Beaverton, Oregon. Stopping Nike from trampling labor rights That the Vietnamese press has published reports detailing abuses in Nike contractor plants is significant, because it demonstrates a government disapproval of these practices. The government tightly controls the Vietnamese media, and the appearance of dozens of stories about these incidents in recent months suggests the government is not as willing to ignore abusive behavior as its counterparts in Indonesia and China. Whether disapproval of abusive labor practices will override the government's feverish desire for foreign investment remains to be seen, but it certainly enhances the leverage of labor rights activists working to eradicate the most brutal practices connected to one of the world's greatest corporate beneficiaries of economic globalization. Jeff Ballinger is director of Press for Change, an advocacy group leading the campaign to force Nike to ensure its contractors respect basic labor rights. http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Tr...etnam_MNM.html In het kort, Nike schend de rechten van de arbeiders grof.
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Dit is een case study, en die zijn lang niet altijd representatief. Er zijn ook genoeg gevallen bekend van Vietnamese boeren die door de staat en door multinationals van hun land zijn verjaagd en gedwongen worden om te werken in fabrieken terwijl ze een respectabel inkomen hadden met hun producten op de lokale markt.
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Tja, nike misbruikt de slechte situatie van de mensen voor zeer goedkope arbeids krachten met weinig rechten. Verder is het maar de vraag in hoeverre nike de situatie verbeterd, als ik het zo lees zie ik duidleijk dat nike alleen ervoor zorgt dat de werknemers kunnen blijven werken zodat hun kapitalistische belangen zijn gediend. Ze helpen de bevolking dus niet echt. In mijn ogen klinkt dat 1e stuk vooral als een marketings praatje van nike. Nike heeft er geen baat bij de situatie te verbeteren in vietnam omdat ze graag willen dat het een lage lonen land blijft, dus zal nike alleen doen wat ze nodig hebben om hun goedkope productie in stand te houden.
Kortom, ze misbruiken de arbeiders voor hun kapitalistische doel, en de werknemers varen daar niet wel bij omdat nike er alles aan zal doen om het land een derde wereld land te laten blijven met lage lonen. De communisten willen alleen het beste voor hun volk, doordat hun fabrieken en bedrijven in de hand van de staat blijven zal de staat er altijd op toezien dat de burgers recht word gedaan en dat de burgers een goed leven hebben. Dankzij de staat hebben veel mensen werk en kunnen ze hun gezin onderhouden. Nike ondermijnd dit staatsgezag en heeft er geen belang bij de welvaart te verhogen want dan moeten ze meer loon betalen, de staat wil dit wel en heeft dus het beste met de mensen voor. Op korte termijn zal wat nike doet zeer goed lijken, maar op lange termijn zal blijken dat het communisme wint, omdat het communisme verbetering beoogd, en het kapitalistische nike niet, die beogen stilstand. Neem deze tekst aub met een korreltje zout en filter de verstopte essentie eruit |
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Sins of Omission: What Labor Rights Groups Wish Knight Had Promised The demands which rights groups have made of Nike but which Nike has deliberately ignored can also be grouped into six categories: 1st Demand: Protect workers who speak honestly about factory conditions. Nike's track record in protecting workers who blow the whistle on sweatshop conditions is very poor. The company has turned its back on individual workers who have been victimized for speaking to journalists, and has cut and run from other factories after labor abuses have been publicized. Until this changes, Nike workers will have good reason to keep silent about factory conditions for fear that speaking honestly may result in them and their fellow workers losing their jobs. Voor het gehele artikel klik hier |
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Maf eigenlijk, op zich zou het marketingtechnisch gezien helemaal geen gek idee zijn om de situatie van die werknemers te verbeteren. Emotionele productwaarden e.d.
Er zijn uiteraard grote groepen mensen die geen Nike schoeisel meer willen hebben, doordat ze weten dat de makers van de schoenen onder barre omstandigheden moeten werken. Die mensen zou Nike misschien terug kunnen winnen door ervoor te zorgen dat die berichten een wat minder negatieve inslag hebben. Maargoed, da's weer 'n hele andere discussie.
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Ik weet niet in hoeverre ik dit mooie verhaal moet geloven. Het is heel makkelijk om zo'n mooi propaganda verhaal vast te houden, kijk maar naar het bekende verhaal van de Berlijnse muur, dat het aan de Oost kant helemaal niet zo slecht zou zijn... Als je het mij vraagt worden die Vietnamezen gewoon uitgebuit...
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