Word: nikes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Worried about Asia? Take heart: South Korea's government announced plans for a $3.5 billion equity fund that will be used to purchase stock of troubled companies and keep their employees working -- and that of course means more spending money to buy stuff like Pentium chips and Nike sneakers. Heck, even Kodak had a good quarter...
Unjust working conditions--Kathie Lee and Nike have both gotten into trouble over them. Now, Students for a Sweat-Free Campus (SFSFC) are working to make sure that Harvard doesn't condone the same injustices...
...still got lots of money because of football, even if Campbell's Soup and Nike pull the plug on White's endorsement deals...
...Nike says it has a staff of 1,000 labor-practices managers enforcing a program the company calls shape--an acronym for Safety, Health, Attitude of Management, People, Environment. "We are the only company that has people dedicated exclusively to labor-practice enforcement," says Brad Figel, Nike's Washington lobbyist. Outside auditors as well as nongovernmental organizations have also had a look...
...Nike's critics have argued that the company cannot monitor work standards credibly with its own staff or with hired guns such as former United Nations ambassador Andrew Young, whom Nike paid to visit plants in China, Vietnam and Indonesia. He concluded that "Nike is doing a good job...but Nike can and should do better." Activists dismissed his report as propaganda. Of course, if Nike can't reverse its recent sales trends, job conditions won't be a problem for many of these workers. They won't have jobs...