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...factory on the outskirts of Jakarta wondering if she, too, should be counted as a victim. Yasin, 30, worked for 11 years as a cloth cutter on the assembly lines of a shoe manufacturer, but a month ago her employer was forced to close after U.S. athletic gear giant Nike stopped ordering sneakers. Yasin has been looking for work, but now she has begun to despair. "Many orders from America could be moved away from Indonesia" she says, in the wake of the Bali blast. "It could make it more difficult for me to find...
...hometown," she says. Today, the cavernous buildings housing the assembly lines where she used to work are padlocked. The union and the factory's workers are camped out in the one building they have access to, which houses the union office and what used to be the "Nike School," where the sneaker company ran a supplemental education program. They intend to stay there, says Ahmad Saukani, the 35-year-old vice chairman of the company union, until they get fair severance pay. The target of the workers ire is PT Doson Indonesia, the company that ran the factory...
...Nike has offered them aid?microloans to start their own businesses, continued health care, and an offer to tell other suppliers to hire the laid off workers. But the factory is likely doomed. Chris Helzer, director of external affairs for Nike in Southeast Asia, says the company stopped placing orders with Doson because their product was substandard...
...brightest spot in a city plagued by chronic electrical power shortages. Meanwhile, across the Yalu River in the Chinese city of Dandong, new, white buildings rise above the riverbank, traffic clogs the streets, and moving walkways roll through a local shopping mall past stores stuffed with Nike shoes and Coca-Cola...
...companies that want to become greener--whether out of a sense of duty, to ward off damaging protests or just to make more money--there are organizations that can help. McDonald's, Home Depot, Nike and Starbucks have enlisted Natural Step, a San Francisco nonprofit, to help them understand their environmental and social impact, envision what their company would look like if it were sustainable and then realize that vision with new processes and materials. McDonald's, which has had a relationship with the advocacy group Environmental Defense for 13 years, this year stopped buying chicken treated with Cipro-like...