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Terry Brennan of Beaverton ,OR:
Do your critics have examples of your competitors here or elsewhere who handle subcontracted labor in a manner dramatically different than Nike? Isn't the very existence of the athletic shoe dependent on inexpensive hand labor?
A Spokesperson from Nike responds:
We don't really know really know what our critics know about our subcontractors. But, we do know that Nike shoes and apparel are manufactured in better factory conditions than our competitors. Our critics claim that by targeting Nike, the entire industry will change. We disagree and point to the soccer ball industry as an example. Along with Saga Sports, our manufacturing partner in Pakistan, we set up an unique system to make soccer balls that basically changed the industry from a cottage industry with almost no control over who stitched the soccer balls together to a stitching center model in which we have great control. Two years later, the stitching centers are well lit and clean and no person under 16 years old manufactures soccer balls. Some our European competitors manufacture their soccer balls in Pakistan, but they have not changed the way they do business at all.
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