Word: kukdong
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Dates: during 2001-2001
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Workers in Kukdong, a factory that manufactures university logo apparel for Nike, have complained of abusive working conditions and overbearing management but managed to organize, aided by an intense effort on the part of the WRC, founded two years ago by a consortium of non-profits, universities and non-governmental organizations...
Panelists said they hoped to illuminate the key ingredients that led to the success of the Kukdong movement, in the hope that the same mix will be achieved in future cases of workers’ rights violations...
...addition to Nova and Nunez, presenters included Nunez’s research assistant, Catalina Guzman Albaful, and Kukdong union organizer Marcela Munoz Tepepa...
Assisted by a student translator enlisted at the last minute, Tepepa described the oppressive conditions that she and others had suffered in the Kukdong factory. She spoke of spoiled cafeteria food, physical and psychological mistreatment at the hands of managers, and painfully low wages. Workers, mostly young women and largely single mothers, were paid only three or four pesos per day, while workers actually require 100, Tepepa said...
Because of the WRC’s investigation, and because of concern expressed by universities supplied by Kukdong, the government of Mexico began to recognize the unjust state the factory, the panelists said...