How Nike treats its Vietnamese workers
28 cents an hour, 78 hours a week. Nike owners have become very rich from the exploitation of workers - Chief Exec, Phil Knight, has a personal fortune of almost $4 billion. Meanwhile, in Vietnam, the average Nike worker earns $47 a month. Sewers making Nike clothes in factories in Dhaker, Bangladesh, earn between 11 and 20 cents an hour for a 78 hour week; workers are prevented for talking to each other and are often abused by supervisors. Nike makes massive profits on its shoes and clothes. Christian Aid estimated (1995) that the labour costs involved in making one pair of Nike trainers is...