Obama to Visit Nike to Promote Free Trade Deal
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"Obama apparently believes visiting a company known for using sweatshop labor is a good way to promote what he says is the “most progressive trade deal in history.”
U.S. President Barack Obama will be visiting Nike’s Oregon headquarters Friday in a bid to promote the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) free trade deal currently being with 11 other Pacific Rim nations.
Obama’s choice of Nike, a company that had been consistently called out by human rights and labor groups for its unethical business practices around the world, such as the use of child labor, is something free trade critics suggest is actually fitting.
“With less than 1 percent of its more than 1 million production jobs located in the United States, Nike perfectly depicts America’s lost-jobs, low-wage future under the Trans-Pacific Partnership,” said Elizabeth Swager, director of the Oregon Fair Trade Campaign.
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