" Nike, the brand's owner, acknowledges that such abuse has occurred among the contractors ...

[elehhhhna]

Nike faces new worker abuse claims
Workers making Converse sneakers in Indonesia say supervisors throw shoes at them, slap them in the face and call them dogs and pigs. Nike, the brand's owner, acknowledges that such abuse has occurred among the contractors that make its hip high-tops but says there was little it could do to stop it.

http://projects.propublica.org/muckreads/

[Brickbat]

1. "Little it could do to stop it."

Awwww, po' little Nike can't pull its contwact? Awww.

I forgot Nike was such a tiny, just-scraping-by, un-influential company.

[gratuitous]

2. By "little" they mean

"Little that wouldn't cost them some money, and aren't our shoes overpriced enough? Oh, we'll monitor our sweatshops, you rabble, but it'll make your King James shoes cost an additional twenty five dollars. You really want that? Huh? Do you?"

This sounds so much like Michael Jordan claiming that he didn't make Air Jordans, so he had no interest/responsibility in finding out what conditions they were manufactured under. He just collects the royalties; you can't expect him to notice the blood on the bills.

[Kingofalldems]

3. Converse is Nike?

I did not know that.

[Brickbat]

4. Has been for awhile.

Chuckies haven't been made in the USA for years.

[dipsydoodle]

5. Its not that so much

Nike bought the Converse brand name 2 years ago.

[Brickbat]

6. Nike bought Converse in 2003.

[dipsydoodle]

9. I must've looked at an old link

but prior to selling the brand name Converse were already manufacturing overseas.

[Brickbat]

11. Yes, that is true.

[Blue Owl]

7. Republicans are absolutely powerless to stop cheap labor

It would go against their very fiber to bring fair living wages to all.

[outerSanctum]

10. Nike = Republican?

I didn't know that....

[onethatcares]

8. probly due to everyone that works there is classified as

"a contractor".

kinda like "right to work" but not, "right to form a union".

I'll never buy a pair of their overpriced bullshit footwear in my lifetime and no, I don't wannna be like Mike.